Punk 57

Seven years of letters, arguments, and secrets — and Misha and Ryen have never once met in person.

What started as a fifth-grade pen pal mix-up — a teacher assuming Misha was a girl, another assuming Ryen was a boy — somehow became the most important relationship either of them has ever had. Through fights about pizza toppings, rap legends, and everything in between, they built something real. Something honest. Something neither of them could find anywhere else.

But letters only tell you so much about a person.

When Misha finally sees Ryen in the flesh at their shared high school, the girl he thought he knew is nowhere to be found. The Ryen who poured her heart onto paper is buried under a performance — the right clothes, the right friends, the right cruelty. She's everything he can't stand. And she has no idea who he really is.

So he decides not to tell her.

What follows is a collision of two people who know each other more deeply than anyone else in their lives — and can barely stand to be in the same room. The tension is sharp, the banter is electric, and the emotional stakes are brutally high as secrets unravel and the line between hatred and longing grows impossibly thin.

Punk 57 is a raw, achingly real new adult romance about identity, masks, and what happens when the person who knows your soul turns out to be your greatest enemy — and your only salvation.