Eli’s secret crush on his roommate Derek explodes into a campus scandal when Derek outs him in front of everyone. Forced from his dorm and shunned by friends, Eli’s pain deepens as Derek can’t let go—or let Eli move on. But when Eli finds an unexpected ally in the fearless Noah, lines blur between heartbreak, obsession, and something dangerously new.
Natalie is trapped in a fake engagement to New York’s cockiest heir, forced to play the perfect couple while her heart aches for Derek—the tattooed, gentle piercer who sees through every lie. Every stolen glance risks scandal, but Natalie can’t stop craving the danger of loving someone forbidden. When family secrets threaten Derek’s safety and her own feelings become impossible to hide, she must choose: betray her family, or lose the only man who truly knows her.
Emily’s always been the sweet, invisible girl—until her summer alone in Chicago means sharing an apartment with Ryan, her brother’s infuriatingly hot best friend. She hides her crush behind pink skirts and polite smiles, but every meal, every stolen glance, brings her dangerously close to being exposed. When jealousy flares and their secrets collide, will Ryan finally see the real girl who’s been right under his nose?