Abby Ryan has her whole life planned out, up until graduation that is. As a journalism student at the University of Southern Washington, she has one goal in mind for her last semester of senior year: secure a scholarship for graduate school. But when a scholarship opportunity arises that requires her to write a feature article on USW's star basketball player and notorious playboy, Tristan Beck, lines start to blur, and Abby soon realizes that staying focused can be hard when you're trying not to fall in love. Tristan Beck has been focused on one thing since he started at USW on a full-ride scholarship: put up the numbers and bust his ass to get drafted into the NBA. With only a semester standing between him and the draft, this is his last chance to impress the scouts. When Abby Ryan, a witty and magnetic journalism student, asks to interview him for an article, he knows the publicity will be good for his career, but when they start spending time together and he realizes that he might want her as more than his typical hook-up- only fashion, he has to remind himself why he refuses to date, and where his priorities need to lie.

He was the wind that made her world freeze over. She was the fire that lit up his. - Aren Petros was the stain on the Petros family name, known for his criminal past. And Mila Chambers was the solution to cleaning up his image. So when they find themselves bound by a marriage of convenience, despite their mutual reluctance and disdain, they must navigate turbulent emotions and societal expectations as they confront their differences and hidden pasts. After all, love may just conquer all, even hate. [ inspired by the myth of Eros and Psyche ]