Trust Fall

Lynn Painter

When seventeen-year-old Julia Lowell's family unexpectedly inherits a fortune from an elderly neighbor, she's uprooted from small-town Nebraska and thrust into Manhattan's elite prep-school world. There she clashes with Damion, the late benefactor's great-nephew, who believes her family schemed their way into the inheritance that should have been his. Forced together as math tutor and tutee, the two spar their way from mutual suspicion toward real feelings, even as secrets and misunderstandings threaten to tear them apart. It's a contemporary, autumn-set YA rom-com about grief, belonging, and learning to trust again.