Ever so slowly, I lowered my mouth to the lime. As I did so, I felt the brush of her lips on mine. Just a touch. Just a breath, and it ignited fire in my veins. And at that moment, I forgot a lot. My heart stopped, my breathing quit, my thoughts ceased. But I knew one thing, and it was screaming in the hollows of my brain. 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳. - an academic rivals to lovers romance - Emilia Laurent, top of her class. Augustus Casen, top of his class. What happens when the school sends both to a competition in California? One month. One competition. One hotel room. Two rivals. What could go wrong? - book one in the erudite trilogy - rankings: #1 in compete (sep 12 2023) #1 in competition (oct 16 2023) #1 in academicrivalstolovers (nov 28 2023) #1 in rivalstolovers (jul 27 2024)

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱 "𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿" 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗗 『𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝘆𝘂𝘂 𝘅 𝗼𝗰』 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘂𝗺𝗶 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘂 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗡𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗬𝘂, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲. 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 & 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 : 𝟶𝟺𝟷𝟽𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 : 𝟶𝟻𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜 : 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 © 𝚜𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚢𝚜𝚜𝚊 #𝟸 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚡𝚘𝚌 : 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟽, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶 #𝟿 𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜 : 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟿, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶 🌸ＷＡＲＮＩＮＧ🌸 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐎𝐒. 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊 -𝐍&𝐍 / 𝐲𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚