The Girl in Penthouse 17

Sienna didn't come to the city's most exclusive private school to make friends, attend lavish penthouse parties, or fit in with the trust-fund royalty. As a south-side scholarship student holding her broken family together, she has only one goal: maintain a flawless 4.0 GPA, secure a full ride to an Ivy League law school, and escape the crushing weight of poverty forever. She knows the rules of survival. Keep your head down. Protect your secrets. Trust no one-except Kai Morgan, her fiercely protective childhood best friend who has watched over her from the fire escapes of their youth, burying a dangerous, unspoken love for her.

But Sienna's survival plan shatters on day one when she collides with Luca Moretti.

Arrogant, dangerously handsome, and emotionally unavailable, Luca is the billionaire heir to a hotel empire. He rules the school from Penthouse 17, a glass fortress overlooking the city. He views Sienna as a temporary inconvenience to step over. She views him as everything wrong with the world.

When a cruel twist of fate forces them into a high-stakes, semester-long partnership, their mutual hatred ignites a toxic, addictive friction. Luca tries to buy her silence and dominance; Sienna refuses to be broken. But as the forced proximity drags them into each other's orbits, the lines between unfiltered rage and breathless tension begin to blur.

Sienna is about to learn that behind Luca's cold, untouchable mask lies a suffocating family pressure as brutal as her own poverty. And Luca is about to learn that the girl from the south side is the only thing his billions can't buy.

In a world built on elite school politics, devastating family secrets, and bitter betrayals, playing with fire might get them both burned-or it might ignite a love that tears their carefully constructed worlds apart.