![]() ![]() She agrees to give their relationship a try, and when he invites her to a major public event, Zora must pull together all her confidence to get through it. Much is riding on Zora’s academic success in the program-benefits to both herself and her community-but she can’t help falling for the charming prince. In their first conversation, Owen owns up to his privilege, and he and Zora connect over the burdens they each feel to live up to external expectations despite the enormous differences between their backgrounds. A chance encounter in the library leads to a relationship with Owen, a white boy who, as it turns out, is a real, live prince of a small European country, complete with his own security detail. She survives by texting her friend Skye real-time updates. Zora, a young, black community organizer, commutes from her New Jersey home to a pre-college summer program at a local Ivy League university where most of the students are so wealthy she feels like she’s in a different world. Zora’s summer goes from tolerable to unforgettable when an unlikely romance develops. ![]()
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