RoomHate

Inheriting half a beachside summer house sounds like the perfect escape—until Amelia discovers her co-owner is the one person who has every reason to hate her.

Justin is no longer the sweet, warm-hearted boy Amelia once knew. Years after she shattered his heart without explanation, he's grown into someone sharp-edged, guarded, and utterly unwilling to make things easy for her. When the two find themselves legally bound to share their late grandmother's stunning property on Aquidneck Island, the tension is immediate, electric, and brutally uncomfortable.

RoomHate is a contemporary romance that masterfully balances biting humor with genuine emotional depth. Justin's cold hostility and cutting remarks are matched only by the unmistakable heat simmering beneath every pointed exchange. Forced proximity has never felt so deliciously suffocating. As their summer cohabitation drags on, old memories surface alongside new complications, and Amelia starts to wonder whether the resentment Justin carries is the whole story—or just the armor he's learned to wear.

Penelope Ward delivers a slow-burn second-chance romance where every loaded glance and reluctant moment of vulnerability chips away at carefully built walls. The witty back-and-forth keeps readers grinning even as the underlying longing breaks their hearts just a little.

For fans of enemies-to-lovers tension wrapped around a genuinely complex love story, RoomHate proves that sometimes the person most determined to despise you is the one who never stopped caring at all.