voltage. Steve Harrington

Avery Mayfield never asked to be dragged to a quiet Indiana town where the biggest excitement is the weekly sale at Melvald's. But when her mother uproots her and her little sister Max to Hawkins, Avery quickly learns that "quiet" is the last word anyone should use for this place-especially with Billy Hargrove as her stepbrother and a storm of secrets crackling beneath the surface.

Avery isn't exactly built for small-town subtlety. She's sharp-tongued, soft-hearted, and about as steady as a live wire-bright one minute, sparking the next. Avery finds herself orbiting the chaos from the edges...until Steve "The Hair" Harrington walks in and throws her entirely off balance.

Their first real meeting is nothing short of inconvenient-wrong day, wrong time, wrong boy to be stuck with. He's charming in the most irritating way, smug but surprisingly kind, the complete opposite of everything she thought he was. They clash before they click, bantering like it's a reflex neither can turn off.

But Hawkins has a way of forcing unlikely people together.
And with monsters creeping out of the shadows and danger closing in, Avery and Steve might just find that sparks aren't always a bad thing...
Sometimes, they're the start of something electric.