Mercy Williams just started her freshman year at Lovell University with her best friend from high school, Rizzo Anderson, when she gets partnered up with none other than Jack McCallion. The quiet brooding sophomore who just transferred, who is hiding his own dark past and a dangerous secret: Jacks the next in line to be alpha in the Lovell city pack. "University is supposed to your glowing and growing up moment. It's not supposed to be growing apart from your friends and taking classes that you hate, thanks, mandatory speech class. And you would think in college we would get to choose our own partners, but nope. Professor Adams has assigned me, of all people, to the one student who almost never talks and when he does talk he spews rude comments. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but Jack McCallion might be the reason I fail this assignment."