SOLVED. College Romance. The guy is younger than the girl by a year or two but he is more experienced than her. She goes to a party at the start of the book and he is there and he makes her leave. Spoilers ahead!

[Maya]

I read this book a few years ago, probably between 2020 and 2023. It was a modern college romance and the FMC's name began with a G and I am pretty sure the MMC called her G at some point. I think he may have been her friend's younger brother but I am not entirely sure about that. She was this innocent hardworking girl and he must have been a bit of a bad boy.

This is where I start regurgitating what I can remember about the plot so SPOILERS BELOW :)












The party at the start was like a not so innocent kind of party and the FMC was about to kiss a guy as part of some game and then the MMC stopped it and dragged her out of there and was all like why are you here? This isn't your scene? And then I think they kissed and she freaked out and left. I can't remember much of the plot in the middle but I think the MMC wanted to see the FMC again and eventually she gave in but they kept it a secret. But he wanted to tell people and she didn't and that was creating tension? Now I'm not entirely sure why she wanted it to be a secret but maybe because her parents wouldn't approve? Or her friends wouldn't?

Anyway, then they went to some party that was at some important person's house and then the party got busted and everyone found out that they had been seeing each other and the MMC basically said he can't be with her when she doesn't know what she wants. They must have made up because the next thing I remember is the FMC is talking to some guy in a restaurant - could be an ex? Or like someone her parents set her up with? But he was like the opposite of the MMC and I think she was rejecting him? And then the MMC shows up and things get heated and the MMC and this guy are fighting and then the FMC joins in to defend the MMC. And then they end up in jail and her parents comes to bail them out? And then I think the parents are rude to the MMC because the FMC walks out with the MMC and I think that was the end?

Honestly I feel like I might have combined 2 books but hopefully some of these plot points can help us figure out the book haha. Please feel free to comment any books you think fit the description! Thanks so much!!! :))))

[Maya]

Found it on worldcat lol that didn't take long! It's called Wild and it's book 3 in the Ivy Chronicles series by Sophie Jordan. I searched on Google, Google books, goodreads, tiktok and random other websites and couldn't find it but I went on worldcat and found it in like 5 minutes. I literally searched "college romance, georgia" because I was like 60% sure the FMC's name was Georgia (which it is luckily) and 150 results came up which I thought would be easy to search through, but it was only like the 20th search result anyway.

Moral of the story is: worldcat for the win! It would probably not be that hard to find a book on other websites if you know the main character's name but problem was when I would search "college romance, georgia" everywhere else, it would show me romances IN Georgia which was completely useless, or worse, books with Georgia in the title which was even more useless. So I guess worldcat is less literal with it lol, if you search something like "Georgia" it will do more than just a surface level search. Just thought I would share because I think this could be useful for other people! Love you worldcat <3