The rivalry: The Academic arms race

Annabelle Ward is a precision instrument: Color-Coded, Top-Ranked, and Perpetually annoyed. Canden Miller is a walking technical foul: Chaotic, and her academic nemesis since the 3rd Grade. For seven years, they've defined themselves by trying to outshine one another.

But then at massive budget cut threatens to dissolve both the school newspaper and the debate team, the administration issues a brutal ultimatum: Only one program will survive: to save their futures, the rivals are forced into a shaky, High-Stakes alliance. as they navigate a "Town Hall Takeover" and shared office space, they realized the only thing more dangerous than losing the grant is the terrifying possibility that they actually make a perfect team. in a war of words and wits, the thinnest line in the word is the one drawn with bkue painter's tape and it's about to break.