Deep End

Book #1 in The Collision Theory Series

Everyone knows Angelica "Gigi" Locke.

She's the girl professors remember, strangers wave to, and every party somehow revolves around. The one everyone wants, everyone talks about, and no one really knows.

Rowan Valiant knows exactly who she is.

Campus hockey star. Professional flirt. Walking red flag. The kind of guy who can charm anyone with a smile and leave before sunrise. They've spent years existing in the same orbit, exchanging nothing more than passing glances-until one Halloween party changes everything.

Neither of them is looking for love.

Just two disasters who swear they can keep things casual, friendly.

But college has a funny way of forcing people to slow down. Between missed calls from home, friendships that become family, late-night conversations, hockey games, exams, and the weight of the lives they pretend aren't falling apart, the line between wanting someone and truly seeing them begins to blur.

Because being desired isn't the same as being loved.

And some people spend their whole lives learning the difference.