num_pages: 400
description: Heated competition leads to even hotter romance in this YA summer rom-com for fans of Sandhya Menon Emma Lord and Wibbroka. Seventeen-year-old high-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious a little too mouthy and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam. So when her nemesis Ian Jun witnesses Kavyas very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year she decides to lay low and spend the summer doing what she loves bestworking part time playing princess roles for childrens birthday parties. But her plan is shot when shes cast as Ariel instead of her beloved Belle and learns that Ian will be her Prince Eric for the summer. [Cue the combative banter.] Exhausted by Kavya and Ians years-long feud their friends hatch a plan to end their rivalry by convincing them to participate in a series of challenges throughout the summer. Kavya is only too eager to finally be declared the winner. But as the competition heats up so too does the romantic tension until it escalates from a simmer to a full-on burn.
language: English
title: Beauty and the Besharam
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers