Nova Greyveil was born to lead her pack, and to prove it, she beat every fighter her father threw at her, only to be told her future is a marriage deal she never agreed to. Marry the Alpha King. So she rejected him and disappeared. Disguised as “Ash Darvin", she sneaks into Vordrak Academy, a ruthless all-male training ground where alphas are built, broken, and buried. One slip means exposure. Exposure means death. She thought surviving Vordrak would be the hard part. Then she meets Caden Voss. Cold. Precise. Dangerous. The academy’s strongest fighter and the only one who keeps looking at her like he can see straight through the mask she’s wearing, and to top it off, he is her roommate. The longer she stays, the harder it gets to hide. Not just her identity, but what his presence is doing to her. Because in Vordrak, secrets don’t stay hidden. And neither does desire.

Harper Bennett has spent her entire life trying to beat one person. Luca Hayes: Star quarterback. Campus heartthrob. Her childhood rival. Their mothers have spent years insisting they were meant to fall in love, but Harper would rather fail every exam at Brookside Academy than admit Luca has ever done one thing right. When Harper finally believes she's found her first love, everything falls apart in a single afternoon. The boy she trusted turns out to be playing games with more than one girl, leaving her heartbroken and humiliated before the entire school. The last person she expects to witness her worst moments is Luca. One embarrassing misunderstanding after another pulls the lifelong rivals into each other's orbit until a public scandal convinces everyone at school that they're secretly together. To protect themselves from rumours, jealous classmates, and unwanted attention, Harper and Luca agree to pretend they're dating. The rules are simple. No real feelings. No jealous scenes. No kissing unless absolutely necessary. But pretending becomes harder when every fake date feels real, every stolen glance lasts a little too long, and the boy Harper spent years trying to outrun becomes the only person who never lets her face the world alone. Now she must decide whether the greatest mistake of her life was falling for the wrong boy... ...or refusing to see the right one standing beside her all along.