Under the Waves by Juliet Catalina

She’s a ruthless surfing champion with a troubled past. He’s the people pleaser surf captain she loves to hate.

POPPY WELLS has hated her surfing rival since the beginning of time – well, at least for as long as she could remember. Left alone to pick up the pieces of her broken home whilst navigating the waters of high school life, Poppy struggles to find a balance between the girl she once was and the girl the world made her out to be.

JASPER RIDGE is a surfing God – well, that’s how everyone treats him. As the captain of the Hawthorne Hills Elite Academy surf team, he has everything going for him, but balancing his far from perfect life whilst leading his teammates to the state finals means that he cannot afford any distractions this year, especially one that comes in the form of a girl he once knew and despised.

Ever since he could remember, Poppy and him had always been rivals. There was no surfing competition they competed in where they weren’t at each other’s throats. Their pranks were legendary, their legacy even more so, but when Poppy finally returns to Hawthorne Hills all these years later, maybe it could give them a chance to be something more than just rivals…

UNDER THE WAVES is a small town coastal romance novel and the first book in the waves trilogy set in the Hawthorne Hills universe, following two childhood surfing rivals as they suddenly find themselves in a fake relationship whilst competing against each other in a bet to be crowned state surfing champion.