sixteen sweet and sour

He knocked her shoulder at a Model UN conference with a camera slung around his neck. She told him to watch where he was going. Neither of them thought much of it until rehearsals started. Prajna has a system for everything-color-coded, time-blocked, and accounted for. Rishi was never supposed to be part of it. But somewhere between line run-throughs at a rehearsal hall that smells like old wood, a shared bike ride home, and a birthday that ends with one quiet word-"Praj"-the system stops holding. The stage kiss stops being pretend somewhere in the middle. Then real life does what real life does. College applications. An acceptance letter that changes everything. An ocean between Hyderabad and Providence, and then Boston-the same building, three floors apart, both of them pretending a year of silence didn't happen. It did. And it isn't finished with them yet. Sixteen: Sweet and Sour is a slow-burn coming-of-age romance that follows Prajna and Rishi from a school auditorium in Hyderabad to a snowy building in Boston-through a first love neither of them planned on, a year of distance neither of them wanted, and the long, quiet work of choosing each other again once they're finally in the same room. Sweet, because it's real. >For readers who love slow-burn romance, a story rooted in two real, specific cities, and the kind of love that survives distance because it was never built on proximity in the first place, this book is for you.