Audre & Bash Are Just Friends

Audre Mercy-Moore is the junior class president and debate team captain at Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn's elite academy. When her summer plans fall through and she's stuck at home, she hires Bash Henry, a mysterious new senior, as her "fun consultant" to help her complete an Experience Challenge—a list of five dares meant to provide material for her self-help book, which she hopes will impress Stanford's admissions board. Bash's job is straightforward: help Audre with the challenge in exchange for payment. But as they work together through the summer, their obvious connection makes it difficult to maintain a purely professional relationship. Audre insists they're just friends, and Bash isn't looking for anything more—yet neither can quite forget the chemistry between them. Audre Mercy-Moore is a character who first appeared in the New York Times bestseller Seven Days in June.