Owen Isaacs loves his job as a teacher at Dennington Junior High School, and he's even more thrilled when his students ask him to be faculty adviser for a Gay-Straight Alliance. The one big problem? The only person willing to be his co-adviser is the new coach and PE teacher, a hardcore sports guy who Owen heard make a homophobic comment on the first day of school. Nate Wildflower didn't intend to make an enemy of one of his fellow teachers on his first day at a new school. It's not his fault that people misinterpreted his comment about the downside of the alphabet soup of gender and sexuality labels and wouldn't let him explain himself. Nate's gay, for heaven's sake! But apparently people in a small town are quick to stick people in boxes—did he mention how labels can be problematic? But he's not going to deprive the students of a GSA just because Owen Isaacs seems determined to hold a completely unfounded grudge. When they're forced to work together, Owen starts to realize that Nate is maybe not as much of a jerk as he thought, and for his part Nate finds Owen's enthusiasm and passion endearing. But Nate is cautious while Owen is impatient, and their mutual attraction is plagued by missteps and misunderstandings. If romance were a class, they might just both fail the final exam.