Ordinary Boy

Nobody is that much of a nobody.

Sloane Whitmore has ruled Westbrook High since seventh grade. Perfect grades. Perfect smile. A glass house on the hill and four hundred likes on every photo. Everyone moves out of her way.

Then the new boy doesn't.

Matthew Crawford sits alone at the table nobody sits at. He speaks French like he was born to it, catches a falling robot before anyone else sees it fall, and gets a perfect score on a calculus test - then erases his own right answers so nobody will notice. Every afternoon, a man who looks exactly like a bodyguard drives him to an animal shelter on the wrong side of the harbor.

He doesn't care who Sloane is. And she can't stand it.

The same day he arrives, Sloane's secret sketchbook disappears from her locked locker. It holds three years of drawings nobody knows she makes, and one page she has never shown anyone.

Then the messages start:

The new boy isn't who he says he is. Find out who he is, and you'll get your book back. Tell anyone, and every page goes public.

Now the queen of Westbrook has to become a detective. She follows Matthew. She cleans dog kennels in suede boots. She builds a board of clues in her closet with red string. But the closer she gets to his secret, the more she realizes that someone is using her to hunt him, and that the only person who has ever told her to keep drawing might be the one she's about to destroy.

A slow-burn YA romance wrapped in a mystery, with a secret that reaches all the way to a castle above a Swiss lake.

You'll love Ordinary Boy if you like:

• Secret royalty and hidden identities
• The queen bee and the boy who doesn't care
• A heroine who solves the mystery herself
• She hated him first
• A one-eyed shelter dog who steals every scene
• Slow burn, with a first kiss you'll wait for

Book One of the Ordinary Boy Trilogy. The complete trilogy is available now.

Recommended for readers 14+. Contains references to physical abuse in a past teen relationship, blackmail, and grief.