You - Sienna Callahan - are the star student of St. Jude's Academy, and your life is a constant, exhausting pursuit of perfection. Every grade matters. Every achievement matters. And for the past four years, there has been one person standing between you and the top spot.
Ethan Bennett.
Infuriatingly brilliant, effortlessly confident, and somehow always capable of beating you by exactly one point. Every test, every assignment, every exam—it has always been you against him.
You tell yourself you hate him. His smug smile. His effortless charm. The way he always seems to know exactly how to get under your skin.
Then the faculty announces the Senior Capstone Project.
And you're paired with him.
Suddenly, the person you've spent years trying to beat is the person you're forced to trust. What you expect to be an absolute disaster slowly becomes something neither of you anticipated.
Because beneath the rivalry, you begin to discover a side of Ethan no one else sees. And the more time you spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the uncomfortable truth:
The only person who can truly keep up with your intellect might also be the only person who truly understands you.
And maybe the line between rivalry and something more was never as clear as you thought.