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Potentially You and Me

What do you get when you add the ultimate meet cute + a bruised head? = A whole can of heartbreak.

It all starts in aisle three.

Lacie O’Connor prefers to see the world in black and white, logical, rational, and natural, like her biology major. She just wants to survive her freshman year of college, but first she must find a can of peas. Instead, she gets hit on the head with a box of cake mix.

Trent Montgomery is all saturated and technicolor even in the maroon employee polo. Lacie thought she left him and his sheepish smiling friend at the grocery store but finds him in her most dreaded class: Intro to Philosophy. He sits next to her, and it’s all PLATOnic until he presses his foot up against hers. That’s all it takes for her to get lost in the philosophy of Trent. What starts out as sidewalk conversations soon leads to study sessions that transform to cuddle sessions that transform to make-out sessions.

But just before winter break, Trent steps back. He dodges her texts. He kisses her in private but blows her off in public. Lacie knows miscommunication and mixed signals spread like an invasive plant species, but what she can’t figure out is which version of Trent is real. The one she met in aisle three, or the one who likes to get drunk in dorm building basements.

Perfect for fans of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and Begin Again by Emma Lord, Potentially You and Me is a clean, slow-burn college romance that captures the emotional chaos of first love, first heartbreak, and the blurry line between what’s real and what we hope it is.

The Culture of Hooking Up

As a twenty-one-year-old sociology major, Laney Emerson, approaches life the same way she approaches her ethnographic research at a local nightclub, detached and observant.

She's researching nightclubs to show the oppressive nature of hookup culture and other gendered dating expectations, but she knows the rules of hooking up. One, never stay past sunrise in a stranger’s bed. Two, no strings attached. Laney experiences the alienation of hookup culture just as much as she engages in it.

Until one night, Laney meets Jack Carver at the bar. He wears his heart on his sleeve like a tattoo and is determined to drill his way under Laney’s skin. At first, hooking up with Jack quickly becomes a habit, but when Jack finds out about Laney’s research, he’s only more interested in observing her. Too bad the rules of ethnography are the same as hooking up--don’t get attached. How can Laney focus when the objectives of her research get blurred with the objectives in her heart?

Perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis, Emergency Contact, and Normal People, The Culture of Hooking Up is a heart-smart new adult college romance about intimacy, identity, and the difference between looking and seeing.