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Jayna Carter has spent her entire life being overlooked.
The daughter of a pediatric surgeon and a wealthy architect, she's grown up in a mansion full of everything except the one thing she's ever wanted: people who care. Her parents are never home, her friends are really just people she sees at parties, and despite graduating valedictorian from her preppy private school, nobody seems interested in the parts of her that exist beyond dark red curls and a reputation for being the life of the party.
College is supposed to be a fresh start.
Liam Walker wasn't looking for one.
Raised in a small Rhode Island town by loving Christian parents, Liam arrives at college with a plan: study hard, get into medical school, and stay out of trouble. But when a disastrous fraternity party earns him the nickname "Lord Liam" and lands him in the orbit of the campus's most intimidating party girl, his carefully organized life begins to unravel.
Jayna is everything Liam thinks he should avoid.
Liam is everything Jayna never knew she wanted.
What starts as silly nicknames, study sessions, and late-night conversations slowly turns into something neither of them expected. As their friendship deepens, Liam finds himself questioning the boundaries he's always lived by, while Jayna discovers what it's like to have someone genuinely care about who she is beneath the image she's spent years projecting.
But when guilt, insecurity, and fear finally catch up with them, one careless argument threatens to destroy everything they've built.
Separated over Christmas break, Liam is forced to confront his own mistakes while Jayna spirals deeper into loneliness, convinced she's too much for some people and not enough for everyone else.
For the first time in her life, Jayna wants to change.
The question is whether Liam can convince her she never needed to.