Senior Year Heat
Elena Vargas has spent three years at Pacific Ridge Academy being perfect.
Scholarship student. Top of her class. Invisible when it matters.
Senior year is supposed to be the final controlled sprint toward a future that will finally get her out.
Then comes the first party of the year.
One locked guest house. One night she stops performing restraint.
What happens with Jake Holloway — the golden-boy lacrosse captain who has never had to earn a room — is meant to be a single, contained exception.
It isn’t.
Jake wants more.
Marcus Cole, the quiet transfer who sees too much, wants something sharper.
And the carefully maintained lines at Pacific Ridge — between public and private, power and surrender, ambition and appetite — begin to blur.
Elena is no longer just trying to survive senior year.
She is deciding how much of herself she is willing to risk… and how much she is finally ready to take.
*A steamy, emotionally sharp story of class, desire, and the dangerous freedom of being eighteen and done pretending.*
