Like You Hate Me (Alternate Cover Edition) (Hawthorne University (Alternate Cover Editions))

When the boy you've blamed for the worst day of your life shows up on your doorstep with a suitcase and a lease agreement, hate stops being an emotion—it becomes a survival strategy.

Set against the charged atmosphere of Hawthorne University, *Like You Hate Me* follows Marcus, a college basketball star who has spent two years constructing an airtight identity out of discipline, ambition, and carefully controlled rage. The tragedy that shattered his family left one target for all that grief: his late sister's former best friend. Hating him is the one thing that still makes sense.

Then Eli moves in.

Forced to share walls, meals, and suffocating proximity, Marcus watches his meticulously maintained facade crack under pressure he never anticipated. What starts as a calculated campaign to make Eli's life unbearable curdles into something far more complicated—and far more dangerous. Every confrontation lingers too long. Every moment of silence between them charges with something neither of them is willing to name.

This is a dark, erotically charged LGBTQ+ romance that refuses to flinch from the ugliness of grief, guilt, and the terrifying pull of desire toward someone you're supposed to despise. Bethany Winters writes tension that feels like a live wire—crackling, unpredictable, and impossible to look away from.

Some obsessions masquerade as hatred for years before revealing their true shape.

*Like You Hate Me* asks: what happens when the person you've been punishing was never really your enemy at all?