HeatWave

Senior year was supposed to be simple-win games, pass classes, survive until graduation. But nothing feels simple when Aurora "Rory" Smith is around. Fiery, competitive, and brutally honest, Rory has never hidden her dislike for Lottie Matthews-the golden girl of West Essex High. Lottie is everything Rory resents: rich, untouchable, effortlessly admired. And if it weren't for soccer, Rory would gladly avoid her altogether.

But fate has other plans. On the field, in the classroom, and at every forced team event, Rory and Lottie are thrown together again and again. The more they clash, the more sparks fly-verbal jabs turning into late-night stares, arguments leaving them breathless for reasons neither will admit.

Hating Lottie should be easy. But the longer Rory spends in her orbit, the harder it becomes to tell where the rivalry ends and something else-something hotter, messier, and dangerously irresistible-begins.

Some fires burn slow. Others spread like a heatwave.