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Owen Peters has always lived by one rule: logic comes first.
A brilliant, painfully blunt math prodigy in his final year of high school, Owen has little patience for distractions. Parties are pointless, gossip is idiotic, and most of his classmates are, quite frankly, too stupid to tolerate. Especially the popular crowd. The jocks. The cheerleaders. The effortlessly adored students who seem to float through life without understanding the simplest quadratic equation.
Then, one day in calculus class, Owen notices Stacey Lane.
Not that she is new. She has been at the same school for years. Somehow, she had always existed outside his carefully ordered world. Until now. Until the moment she walks into his class and shatters the quiet certainty of it.
Bright, beautiful, and frustratingly carefree, Stacey Lane is everything Owen normally despises. She laughs too loudly, struggles with math, and seems completely uninterested in the rigid order Owen builds his life around. Yet from the moment he notices her, she becomes the one variable he cannot ignore.
What begins as simple observation quickly turns into something more complicated. Stacey's easy charm, stubborn independence, and hidden vulnerability pull Owen deeper into her orbit than he ever intended. And when he realizes she is struggling in the very subject he excels at, an idea forms. Dangerous, irrational, and impossible to shake.
He will help her.
Teach her.
Guide her.
But the more time they spend together, the more Owen discovers that Stacey is not nearly as simple as he first assumed. And the logical, controlled world he prides himself on begins to unravel in ways no formula can predict.
Because some problems cannot be solved with equations.
And Stacey Lane might just be the one variable Owen Peters can never control.