Loathed Love

Audrey Cobalt has always believed in hard work, academic success, and the possibility of a perfect love story. As the youngest member of the accomplished Cobalt family, she arrives in New York City ready to make her own mark at college and pursue the future she has imagined. Her plans become complicated when she finds herself caught between two very different men. Guy Abernathy, the ambitious and charismatic captain of Manhattan Valley University’s quiz bowl team, seems to embody everything Audrey has wanted. Birdie St. Pierre is his opposite: an abrasive, sharp-witted musical prodigy who has little patience for wealthy heiresses. When Birdie becomes Audrey’s tutor and her chance to remain on the quiz bowl team, their uneasy connection brings them into closer contact. As Audrey tries to understand her feelings, the difference between the person she thinks she should want and the person she cannot ignore becomes increasingly difficult to dismiss. Written by Krista and Becca Ritchie, Loathed Love is the third novel in the Cobalt Empire series. It combines college romance, academic competition, music, social differences, and an emotionally complicated romantic triangle. Readers can expect alternating character perspectives and a relationship shaped by conflicting expectations and difficult decisions. The book is suited to readers who enjoy new adult and contemporary romance, enemies-to-lovers dynamics, tutor-and-student storylines, university settings, and character-driven romantic fiction. It is part of an interconnected series, while the authors describe the series' romances as readable independently.