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Forced Proximity

YA forced-proximity romance: living under the same roof, sharing a lab bench, or tutoring the one person you'd rather avoid.

Stuck in the same mansion. Assigned as lab partners. Hired as his tutor. When there’s nowhere to hide, feelings have a way of sneaking up on you.

The books

  • Shy Girls Can't Date Billionaires

    One house fire. One billionaire's estate. One boy who hates me at first sight. When Christie Klein's house burns down, her dad's boss swoops in to rescue the family, and now she's stuck in his gothic manor with his arrogant son, Thomas Ashworth III. He glares at her across the dinner table and makes it clear she's a charity case who doesn't belong. Then she's enrolled at his elite academy,… more

  • Shy Girls Can't Date Frenemies

    A forbidden romance wasn't the game plan. At my fancy private school, my sole focus is soccer, which is not a great idea when I'm a lousy student on a scholarship. Enter Milo Nelson, my best friend's nerdy twin brother and the boy I've ignored for years. He's now my tutor, and I can't stop staring at his patient smile when I'm bombing algebra. My life is falling apart: Coach… more

  • Shy Girls Can't Date Rockstars

    She's there to teach him. Not to fall for him. Alice's parents died in a storm two weeks ago, and now she's living with her estranged aunt, who didn't take her in out of kindness. She needs a tutor for her rockstar client. Ryder Hamilton is talented, brooding, and hates her for damaging his equipment. His terms are simple: help him pass English, don't breathe too loud, and stay out… more

  • We Shouldn't Be Together

    They were supposed to study chemistry. Not become it. Tabitha Jones rules Ashworth Academy from the inside out, but behind the perfect hair and razor-sharp tongue is a girl suffocating under toxic friendships and a dissatisfied mother. Kai Nelson lives for adrenaline: soccer, skateparks, and pushing every limit. He's Tabitha's biggest inconvenience, and he sees right through her. Forced to be lab partners, every study session turns into an argument,… more

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