Drafted Together

Ava Reyes writes to survive. Malik Reed went viral for destroying her.

When seventeen-year-old Ava Reyes enters a national writing contest, she never expects her story to become a headline-for the wrong reasons. When Malik Reed, a newly published literary prodigy and guest judge, dismisses her work as poverty porn, the phrase detonates across the internet. So does Ava's life.

A year later, just as Ava claws her way back through a prestigious writing fellowship, she learns the truth: it's a co-author program. Her assigned partner is none other than the boy who once ruined her name.

Now trapped together in a secluded New York writing house, Ava and Malik are forced to confront the words that broke them-and the story they're being asked to build together. With public opinion still watching, secrets buried in their drafts, and feelings neither of them planned for, the line between resentment and intimacy begins to blur.

They have only one rule: finish the book.

But some stories refuse to stay on the page.

A raw, electric novel about viral shame, creative power, and what it means to rewrite the narrative when the world already thinks it knows how your story ends.