SKETCHING THE BADBOY

There are two kinds of people at Sapphire High. The ones everyone loves. And the ones everyone warns you about.

Sienna Hart wants to be neither. After a tragedy shattered her old life, she transfers to Sapphire High with one goal: survive senior year unnoticed. No friends. No drama. No more mistakes.

If she can keep her head down long enough to earn a scholarship to her dream art school in Paris, she'll leave her past exactly where it belongs. Buried.

Then she meets Nikolas Galanis. The school's infamous bad boy. He skips classes, races motorcycles at night, collects detention slips like trophies, and has a permanent talent for getting under her skin. The last person Sienna should get involved with.

The problem? She already has. She just doesn't realize the bleeding stranger she bandaged in a dark alley... and the arrogant boy sitting behind her in Calculus... are the same person.

When Nikolas is forced to find a tutor before failing senior year costs him everything, the last person he expects to rely on is the quiet girl who jumps whenever he gets too close. She wants peace. He thrives in chaos. She sketches the world to make sense of it. He outruns his problems at one hundred miles an hour.

But as secrets surface, old wounds reopen, and the line between enemies, friends, and something far more dangerous begins to blur, they'll discover that the hardest thing to face isn't each other- It's the past they've both been trying to outrun.

Maybe every masterpiece begins with a single imperfect sketch.