Ava Harper came to Atlantic Lakes University to keep her head down, keep her scholarship, and stop needing people who always found someone easier to love. Then Austin Coleman, the Lions’ untouchable star quarterback, sees her run from a balcony kiss and decides the quiet girl in the borrowed dress is the only girl he wants.
Austin has money, fame, a stadium full of girls screaming his name, and a reputation for never keeping a girlfriend longer than a month. Ava has a work apron, a rent spreadsheet, a broken place where her family should be, and no intention of becoming his next campus story.
But Austin keeps showing up. He walks her home after a bad shift. He refuses an ex in front of the whole team. He plays for her praise, gives her his jacket, and waits for the day she chooses him loudly enough for everyone to hear.
When Ava finally becomes the quarterback’s secret girlfriend, the whole campus starts hunting for the girl who changed him. But secrets do not stay hidden under stadium lights, and Austin’s old rival knows exactly where to strike: the girl Austin would risk everything to protect.
A public kiss can start a legend. A championship ring can become a promise. But when the one-month mark arrives and Austin goes silent, Ava has to decide whether love is still a place people leave, or whether this time, the champion is running straight back to her.
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