Anya Chen has spent her entire life upholding the image her parents created: the disciplined "beauty with a brain," always rank number one. This reign of perfection lasted through her first two years of college. In the third year, first semester, everything shatters. Sage Herrera transfers in and, with effortless brilliance, snatches the top rank, pushing Anya into a terrifying second place. Consumed by hatred for the rival who exposed her weakness, Anya's greatest fear is not Sage, but her parents' inevitable anger. Anya vows to destroy Sage and reclaim her perfect life, but constant proximity begins blurring the line between obsession and something else. Now, Anya must confront the terrifying truth: the one person she exists to defeat might be the only person worth losing to.