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When Isla Bennett transfers into Silverthorne University's elite scholars program, she expects brutal exams, impossible curves, and never quite fitting in-not being accidentally paired with him.
Rowan Carter.
Silverthorne's falcon.
Campus golden boy, top of every class, the guy everyone knows better than to cross.
Thanks to a housing "error" and a glitch in the partner system, Isla finds herself stuck with Rowan for everything-same classes, same research track, and a shared honors dorm suite separated by one thin wall. He wants his perfect record and his perfect life back. She just wants to survive the semester without becoming the program's running joke.
From the moment she refuses to give up "his" seat on the first day, Rowan decides the strange new girl is a problem. Quiet, blunt, always in the wrong sweater at the wrong time. The wren who doesn't know when to stay out of the falcon's way.
But late-night study sessions, whispered arguments in the hallway, and group projects that refuse to go smoothly start to crack the distance between them. Rowan sees flashes of the sharp, stubborn mind hiding behind Isla's glasses. Isla catches glimpses of the boy beneath the legend-the pressure, the loneliness, the way he watches the world like he's never really part of it.
The more they're forced together, the harder it is to pretend they're nothing to each other.
Silverthorne, however, loves its falcon exactly the way he is. And not everyone is ready to watch him fall for the wren no one was supposed to notice.
In a world where reputations are everything, Rowan has to choose: stay the boy everyone expects-or risk it all for the girl who was never meant to share his sky.