THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM JENNI HOWELL
Boys with Sharp Teeth
Releasing Winter 2025
Marin James doesn’t believe her cousin’s death was an accident. A seventeen-year-old loner with secondhand jeans and a hot temper, Marin has spent her entire life in the same small town, trapped in the shadow of the exclusive Huntsworth Academy — and the ultra-wealthy, ultra-entitled students who attend. So when her cousin’s body is found on Huntsworth property, Marin knows exactly who’s to blame: the mysterious, dangerously attractive leaders of the academy’s privileged ecosystem.
Determined to uncover the truth, Marin lies her way into Huntsworth as a wealthy transfer student with an impressive (and definitely not forged) transcript. But at a school like Huntsworth, where wealth and power pull all the strings, finding answers won’t be easy. Especially when her quest for justice is muddied by a confusing attraction to her new school, her new life, and the two dysfunctional boys that understand her better than her cousin ever did.
When Marin uncovers a dark secret hiding behind Huntsworth’s ivied gates, the lines between justice and vengeance, love and hate, good and evil, begin to crumble — and nothing is as it seems.
I am Jenni Howell.