You Started It

Jamie Taher-Foster has her senior year mapped out down to a bucket list with her boyfriend Ben, capped off by a perfect Winter Formal night. Instead, Ben comes home from summer break wanting to break up, and Jamie catches him with someone else the very next day. Determined to win him back, she fake-dates Axel Dahini — the carefree, meticulous TikTok dancer whose bike she ran over by accident — and finds their forced time together teaching her more than she expected about people who don't fit neatly into plans.

Jackie Khalilieh follows up with a YA rom-com that folds anxiety, mental health, and racism into a story about learning to stop crossing people off lists.