You Had Me At Thirteen

He needs a distraction.

She despises him.

Can hate turn to love?

Wren Stevenson doesn't do relationships. After years of watching his parents' failed marriage, the eighteen-year-old uses his fists to fight his emotions while dealing with a loved one's devastating prognosis.

But when the emotionally unavailable teenager is forced to work with the gorgeous neighbour he has avoided for five years, he finds himself in a fight against his own heart.

Matilda Maxwell needs to prove herself to her dead father. But when the brooding boy-next-door shows up on her doorstep, her intricately planned future is destroyed.

And when it turns out he is nothing like she imagined, her life takes a deep dive into the emotions she promised years ago to keep buried.

Knowing it would be easy to give in to his growing desire, Wren is determined to show the fiery female she does not belong in his messed-up world. And though Matilda knows she is risking everything she has strived for, she is torn between her need to win and her need for love.

Can Wren and Matilda finally admit their undeniable love before tragedy threatens to rip them apart forever?

You Had Me At Thirteen is an enemies to lovers high school romance. If you love brooding bad boys, forced proximity, and undeniable sexual tension, then you'll love Amanda Kade's emotion-packed novel.