Old School

Elle Finnegan is a junior at Holland University with a passion for storytelling, a soft spot for classic literature, and absolutely zero patience for the modern dating scene. Raised by her swoon-worthy grandparents on a steady diet of handwritten letters and slow dances in the kitchen, Elle is convinced that real romance died somewhere between the invention of dating apps and the rise of situationships.

And between juggling classes, writing her debut novel, and avoiding eye contact with everyone in her lecture hall, Elle has no time for flings, hookups, or the very real human man who seems to appear every time she turns around: Dean Foster.

A graduate student with too much charm and absolutely no business being this persistent, Dean is everything Elle doesn't like. He's spontaneous. Overly confident. Shamelessly flirty. And worst of all? He seems to think he's the hero of her love story.

After overhearing Elle's cynical take on modern love, he decides to do the unthinkable: court her the old-school way: with late night calls on a rotary phone, throwing pebbles at windows, and the kind of grand gestures that belong in a movie montage.

At first, Elle's unimpressed. Then curious. Then... maybe just a little bit hooked.

But falling in love in real life isn't as easy as writing it on the page. It's unpredictable, messy, and nothing like the novels Elle grew up loving. And Dean Foster? He's no perfect fictional boyfriend. He makes her question everything she thought she knew about love---and herself.