At 21, Charlie Watson is smart, unbothered, and months away from graduating with a biology degree-until a class field trip to Lorenzo Industries lands her face-to-face with Ira Lorenzo, the quiet, sharp-eyed 19-year-old heir to the company. What starts as an unexpected internship turns into something deeper: late-night conversations, intense chemistry, and two guarded souls learning to trust in a world that watches everything they do. Between family pressure, buried secrets, and the weight of growing up too fast, Charlie and Ira are forced to ask themselves if love is something they're running toward-or just trying to survive.

Chloe Anderson's life changes completely when troublemaker Ryder West moves in her town and threatens to destroy every single piece of her peaceful, uneventful life.