Ki Stephens

BIRDIE Collins has a plan: finish her junior year in Dayton U’s competitive 3D4M program and secure a coveted arts fellowship. But since a car accident left her battling anxiety and chronic pain, keeping it together has become an uphill climb.

KAIA Karras likes control. She’s a straight-A student, a spreadsheet girl, and a firm believer that sleep is easier to find after a good hookup. No strings, no complications. Definitely no athletes. But one night with the cocky hockey star throws all that out the window.

JADE Jennings is tired of her day-to-day life—from the boring, senseless boys at Dayton U to the repetitive beats her editor assigns. She's looking for excitement, novelty, a good story to sink her teeth into, and a boy she can write home about.

HARPER St. James lives for life’s small joys—sunburnt shoulders, half-melted ice cream, and flirty summer crushes. So when a lie snowballs into campus-wide gossip that she’s dating a football player, Harper doesn’t correct it. Not if it gets her closer to the guy she actually wants to impress.

DAISY Grey is chasing a fresh start—and the ocean. After a breakup that wrecked more than just her heart, she transfers to Coastal U with a surfboard under one arm and a plan to keep her head down. No distractions. No detours. Then she finds a guy asleep on the beach.

EMMY Fuller has always been a dreamer, searching for her fairytale romance amidst the campus greens. But after stepping away from the cheer squad due to her health, she’s struggling to navigate a new normal.

QUINN Rose doesn’t normally make mistakes. At least, not the kind she can’t recover from. But three years ago, she made one so big it cost her everything.

She’s a cheerleader trading in her Oxford life for one year in Nashville. He’s a star quarterback who doesn’t do distractions. But when they team up for a no-strings-attached fling, they’ll have to break their own rules to keep playing the game. After moving from England and breaking up...