The Boy I Should Have Hated Ariana Carters has never had an easy time fitting in. New to Crest High, she expects her first day to be awkward—but she doesn’t expect a green-eyed boy to deliberately send her in the wrong direction and leave her humiliated in front of an entire classroom. That boy is Zayn Hayes. Popular, arrogant, and already taken, Zayn is the last person Ariana should ever fall for. Yet the more they clash, the harder it becomes to ignore the strange attraction between them. Then there’s Kuc, Zayn’s best friend—the boy Ariana unexpectedly grows close to. When her feelings for him are rejected, Ariana begins to wonder if she is simply impossible to love. And just when she starts getting over him, Kuc realizes he may have made the biggest mistake of his life. But Zayn has started looking at Ariana differently too. A stolen kiss. A drunken confession. A photograph that exposes everything. Jealousy, betrayal, friendship, and a relationship that neither of them knows how to handle. When Zayn and Ariana finally give in to their feelings, she believes she has finally found the love she has always wanted. She’s wrong. Their relationship ends in heartbreak, and Ariana eventually finds herself caught in a fake relationship with Drake—one that slowly becomes real. But Zayn isn’t ready to let her go. As old feelings resurface and secrets begin unraveling, Ariana discovers that the people she thought knew her best have been hiding something far bigger than a teenage love triangle. Because the biggest secret of all is the truth about who Ariana really is. And when the truth finally comes out, Ariana will have to question everything she has ever believed about her family, her past, and the boy she once thought she should hate.

She wasn’t supposed to be in that meeting.But the moment she walked into his world, she made one thing painfully clear, she wanted him.The lingering glances. The deliberate touches. The way she invaded his personal space without an ounce of hesitation.She wanted him to believe it was desire.And he did.What he doesn’t know is that she has another reason for being there.She’s searching for answers, answers buried in a past that has been hidden for ten years. Answers that may be connected to his family, his company, and a truth someone has worked very hard to keep buried.He should stay away from her.Instead, he becomes determined to uncover her secrets.And the closer he gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to resist the woman who seems determined to seduce him.She came into his life with a hidden agenda.He never expected to become obsessed with uncovering it.But when the truth finally surfaces, they may discover that the most dangerous deception isn’t the one she told him…It’s the one neither of them saw coming.