Maren Ashford spent three years surviving Crestwood Academy by staying invisible. Then her mother marries billionaire Richard Harrington, and suddenly Maren is living with the one person she cannot stand. Cole Harrington, Crestwood’s golden quarterback and the rich boy who thinks she and her mother are nothing but gold diggers. At school, they pretend to be strangers. At home, they tear each other apart. Maren thinks Cole is a spoiled rich asshole hiding behind charm and football trophies and Cole thinks she's just desperate to have someone fund her life. Their hatred becomes a war of slammed doors, cruel words, and dangerous tension neither of them can escape. Then one kiss ruins everything. A photo leaks, rumors spread and the entire school becomes obsessed with the scandal of Crestwood’s golden boy secretly hooking up with his stepsister. Cole’s future starts falling apart and Maren becomes public enemy number one. But somewhere between humiliation, betrayal, and wanting each other anyway, they realize that the line between hate and love was never there to begin with.