Mirabel has one rule she has never broken:to need no one. Jason Vincent has never once been told no — until her. When a reckless stunt threatens to cost him everything, his father forces him into a mandatory tutoring contract with the campus's most disciplined scholarship student, a girl with no patience for his charm and no room in her life for distraction. But contracts were never built to survive midnight study sessions, borrowed jackets, or the particular danger of being truly seen for the first time. As their arrangement deepens into something neither the paperwork nor the rules can hold, Mirabel finds herself caught between her family's survival and a boy who was never supposed to matter — and Jason finds himself choosing her, again and again, no matter what it costs him will love beat sacrifice.