by
Zakiya N. Jamal
published in
2025

Jodi L says:
A childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers sapphic romance between two battling valedictorians? Say less.
Rochelle "The Shell" Coleman gets a job working at Horizon Cinemas, the Black-owned movie theater, to boost her chance of getting into her dream school, but her nemesis and academic competitor, Amira Rodriguez, will be her boss.