Ivy Monroe has one goal for senior year: survive it. As a scholarship student at Ashridge Preparatory Academy, she has spent three years perfecting the art of invisibility. She knows which hallways to avoid, which seats are safe, and exactly how much space she is allowed to take up in a world that was never built for girls like her. She has one friend, one plan, and zero tolerance for complications. Jace Holloway is the complication. Captain. Quarterback. Son of the man whose name is on half the buildings at Ashridge. He is everything Ivy is not and he made that clear on the very first day of senior year with one careless joke that cost him nothing and cost her everything. She mapped his schedule so she could avoid him. She built her entire survival strategy around never existing inside his orbit. Then she ends up living in his house. A desperate financial situation, a live-in tutoring position, and one terrible stroke of bad luck land Ivy inside the Holloway mansion with the one boy she has spent three years running from. She is there for the money. He is furious she exists in his space. His little brother Noah is the only reason either of them agrees to try. But late nights have a way of dissolving walls. Ivy already knows Jace Holloway the way the whole school knows him, golden and careless and untouchable. What she doesn't know is what lives behind the version he performs for everyone else. The panic attacks he hides behind closed doors. The father whose approval he has been quietly breaking himself to earn. The boy underneath the captain who has never once let anyone see him fall apart. Until her. This is not a story about a girl who forgives too easily. Jace Holloway said cruel things and meant some of them and Ivy Monroe has a very good memory. This is a story about two people who see each other clearly for the first time and have to decide what to do with that kind of dangerous honesty. Fake dating. Real feelings. A secret that started with a video she never meant to record and a boy who was never supposed to matter. He hated her first. She is trying very hard not to love him last.