The Roommate Arrangement
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 27 ene 2026
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- $199.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
When Blair accidentally becomes college roommates with her brother’s best friend, sparks fly in this hilarious rom-com from bestselling author Samantha Markum, perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Emma Lord.
Blair might be a little type-A, but she never thought of herself as completely overbearing…that is, until her two best friends drop her from their housing arrangement a week before her pre-college summer coding program is about to start.
Blair knows if she switches to an on-campus dorm, her parents will make her give up her expensive sculpture class with her dream mentor in order to pay for it. Desperate, she agrees to be the fifth roommate to four off-campus sophomores who are also in a last-minute bind. But things get complicated when one of her new roommates turns out to be her brother’s best friend, Jamie Atwater.
Blair begs Jamie not to tell her brother about the new living arrangement. Her brother would go straight to their parents, who would definitely not approve, and all her plans would fall apart. So they strike a deal: she’ll help him finish coding the app he’s building if he promises to keep her secret.
Spending more time together shouldn’t be a problem. Sure, Jamie has a new haircut, a mysterious tattoo, and a year’s worth of earned muscle, but it’s not like Blair is noticing. After all, they’re only roommates, right?
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Markum (Love, Off the Record) plays into various entertaining romance tropes in this conventional enemies-to-lovers tale. After being unceremoniously kicked out of her off-campus housing by her former besties, incoming computer science freshman Blair scrambles to find a new place to live as she starts her intensive pre-college summer semester. Too scared to ask her overbearing mother and austere stepfather for help, Blair searches online personal ads for people seeking housemates and agrees to move into an off-campus abode with a group of sophomores. Just when she thinks her luck can't get any worse, however, she learns that one of her new roommates is her older brother's irritating best friend Jamie. Worried Jamie will spill her predicament to her family, Blair proposes an exchange: she'll help him code his app, which he needs to win a scholarship, if he keeps their living situation to himself. As they grow closer, though, Blair realizes that Jamie isn't as annoying as she once thought. The white-cued protagonists' budding romance provides frothy, carefree fun, while earnest prose depicts Blair's struggle to balance her secret passion for art with her parents' expectations. Ages 14–up.
