Undertow Semester

Charlotte "Charlie" Hayes wasn't invisible just forgettable. The kind of girl who slipped through high school unnoticed, who played it safe, who never quite became someone worth remembering. So when she leaves for college in a new state, she makes herself a promise: this is her chance to be different. Bolder. Unrecognizable. But reinvention doesn't come easy-and one reckless night at a crowded party changes everything when she meets a stranger who sees her in a way no one ever has.
By morning, he's gone. By afternoon, he's standing at the front of her classroom.
Emmett Walker is calm, controlled, and completely off-limits-the teaching assistant for her marine biology course and the one mistake she can't undo. In class, he treats her like she doesn't exist. Outside of it, he watches her like he never forgot. What starts as confusion turns into obsession as Charlie finds herself caught in a quiet, agonizing push and pull-one where every glance feels loaded, every word feels like a test, and every almost-moment leaves her wanting more. When she finally decides to stop chasing something that was never hers, she might be the one thing Emmett can't let go of.