The Outcast

From the author of love bestsellers “The Deal,” “The Game,” “A Good Girl’s Complex,” and “Stay.”

The fact that your mother is getting married to a rich guy you’ve never met is enough to make any eighteen-year-old’s head spin. But for Er Jey Shaw it’s even worse: he’s sent to Sandover Academy for a graduating course. If there’s a place where a loser hacker like him would fit the worst, it’s a boys’ boarding school entwined with ivy—more precisely, for wealthy criminals. There’s no point trying to get along with anyone. That continues until he meets Sloan Trescott in the woods at the edge of the campus. She’s gorgeous and sharp-tongued—an absolute temptation. Only Sloan is the only girl Er Jey is forbidden to touch.

The director’s daughter.

Yes, Sloan has decided that this year she isn’t interested in relationships.

But Er Jey intends to win the girl’s favor—even if it kills him. Though maybe Sloan’s ex-boyfriend—the acting “king” of Sandover—will handle it first. Luckily, Er Jey unexpectedly has friends. His new stepbrother Fenn is a handsome boy with self-destructive tendencies. Lawson is a self-proclaimed agent of chaos. And Silas is a genuinely good guy—on the very most real level, the nice one he seems to be.

If Er Jey wants to survive at the new school and win Sloan’s heart, he’ll need to find a way to use all the secrets hidden within Sandover’s walls.