Every Reason to Fight

Aiwei Chen built her whole life out of neat edges and well-crafted lies.

At Riverside Prep, she’s Ivy, the scholarship girl with perfect grades and an untouchable future, one color-coded spreadsheet away from lifting her family out of the apartment above the deli. No one there knows the name her mother calls her. No one knows how hard she works to belong.

Then two cops knock on her door asking about her brother, and someone spray-paints a message on his wall.

DANNY HAS 7 DAYS.

To find him, Ivy has to enter the underworld of the Hollows, where most people are already forgotten. Her only way in is Mateo, a boy the streets fear, with rules she has no intention of following.

Every Reason to Fight is an emotional YA thriller about the masks we wear to belong, the families we’d do anything for, and the dangerous discovery that the people you love aren’t your weakness... pretending they are could cost you everything.