Where rules don't apply

Some rules are meant to be followed. Others are meant to be broken.

Odette Rousseau has always known what she wants.

At nineteen, she's starting university at Northfield with one goal in mind: become a criminal barrister and build a life that belongs entirely to her.

She isn't looking for a relationship. She's certainly not looking for complications.

Then, one night, she meets Julian.

He's charming, intelligent, impossibly composed-and somehow makes her laugh without even trying.

Their connection is unexpected. Easy. The kind neither of them planned for.

Until university starts.

Because Julian isn't just the man she met that night.

He's Professor Whitmore.

And suddenly, the line between what they want and what they should do becomes a lot harder to see.

As Odette settles into university life, she finds herself navigating friendship, family, ambition, old wounds and a relationship that neither she nor Julian saw coming.

Because sometimes the hardest part isn't breaking the rules.

It's figuring out which ones were worth following in the first place.

A contemporary university romance about falling in love, finding yourself, and learning that growing up doesn't mean having everything figured out. ❤️