At Sterling Academy-the most elite prep school on the East Coast-Dijtali (Gee-Ta-Lee) James is the girl no one dares mess with.
Smart. Polished. Untouchable.
She's the top of her class, the favorite of every teacher, and the standard everyone else tries (and fails) to meet. But beneath the perfect GPA and polite smile is a girl who stopped letting people in after one heartbreak too many.
Enter Malachi Barton.
The new transfer student on a performing arts scholarship.
Golden boy energy. Movie star smile.
And everything Dijtali can't stand.
From the second he walks in, he's loud, flirty, and infuriatingly warm. The worst part? He reminds her of the boy who broke her heart-and she swore she'd never fall for someone like that again.
So she shuts him down. Hard.
But when a high-stakes academic competition forces them to team up, she's suddenly stuck with the one person she's been trying to avoid. And the more time she spends with Malachi, the harder it gets to keep pretending she doesn't care.
She's ice.
He's fire.
And she's starting to melt.