You Started It

<b><i>Better Than the Movies</i> meets Olivia Rodrigo's <i>Sour </i>in a YA romance novel from <i>Something More</i> author, Jackie Khalilieh — now available in paperback!</b><br><br>Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up.<br><br>And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back. Even if that means fake dating the younger, curly-haired, TikTok dancer Axel Dahini, whose bicycle she accidentally ran over. <br><br>Though she and Axel have nothing in common aside from their shared Arab heritage — she's a messy, type A with anxiety; he's carefree but meticulous — their forced time together brings them to better understand one another. And for Jamie, it just might mean learning that not all experiences or people need to be crossed off a list.<br><br>"<i>You Started It</i> is honest, wise, and wholeheartedly romantic, starring a cast of endearingly flawed characters who feel like real friends. A total delight." —Becky Albertalli, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda</i><br><br><i>“</i>A true joy to read. Earnest and effortlessly charming, <i>You Started It </i>embodies everything I adore about YA rom-coms. Jackie Khalilieh has such a talent for writing nuanced characters you can’t help but laugh with, cry with, and root for.” —Ann Liang, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of<i> I Hope This Doesn’t Find You</i>