Part of Campus Nights
First published 2021
Violet has a list of reasons to stay away from Adam. He is her best friend's brother. He lives next door. He captains the hockey team and has sworn off relationships entirely. Every reason is solid. None of them work. She agrees to one fake date. Just one. Somehow she walks away from it wearing the label of fake fiancée, which is a much larger problem than a fake date ever was. The bigger problem is that Adam still has no idea she has real feelings for him, feelings that have been building long before any of this fake-relationship business started. Now Violet is tangled in a lie she created, living next door to the guy she is lying to, watching him at hockey games, and trying to keep her best friend from finding out. The closer she and Adam get, the harder it becomes to remember which parts are performance and which parts are real. Bad Crush is a warm, funny romance about wanting someone you were never supposed to want and what happens when a small fib spirals completely out of control.
Genres: romance, contemporary, comedy, contemporary-romance, new-adult-romance
Vibes: emotional, engaging, funny, lighthearted, warm
Tropes: fake-dating, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, unrequited-love
323 pages · Kindle Edition · Rebecca Jenshak