MeganSamuels1
Harper Lee Sinclair prefers fictional people to real ones.
Books are predictable. Music makes sense. Human interaction, unfortunately, does not.
As a literature and linguistics major at Briar University, Harper is perfectly content staying invisible beside her best friends, Hannah Wells and Allie Hayes. Between overwhelming social situations, unfinished essays, and the exhausting performance of pretending to be normal, romance is the last thing she wants.
Especially with someone like Cole Bennett.
Briar's star defenseman is intimidatingly quiet, unfairly handsome, and carrying enough emotional baggage to fill the entire hockey arena. Since losing his first girlfriend in high school, Cole has mastered the art of keeping people at arm's length.
Until Harper.
Somehow the awkward literature girl with Broadway playlists and too many thoughts slips past every wall he's built.
What starts as late-night study sessions and reluctant friendship slowly turns into something neither of them knows how to handle:
stolen touches,
shared grief,
midnight drives,
and a relationship that feels terrifyingly real.
Because Harper is hiding how deeply she struggles beneath her sunshine smiles.
And Cole is beginning to realise that loving someone means risking the kind of loss he swore he'd never survive again.
At Briar University, everyone thinks they know the rules of love.
Cole and Harper are about to become the exception.