Future New York Defender Kieran O’Connor takes a cruel locker-room dare to seduce the quiet STEM prodigy who can’t stand him—then makes the one mistake he’s never made he falls first. Kieran O’Connor has one last year at BU before joining his brother Liam on the New York Defenders. When a dark-hearted dare circles the team—seduce the quiet, brilliant girl no one pays attention to—he should walk away. Instead, he says yes. Wren Marin. STEM prodigy. Former world-champion martial artist. The only girl on campus who looks straight through his charm and tells him no. She still won’t give him the time of day until Kieran figures out why. She’s been pining after another guy for a year, and he hasn’t noticed her once. Kieran finally finds his a fake relationship to make her crush see her. But somewhere between late-night study sessions and holding her hand in front of half the campus, Kieran stops playing the game and starts falling for real. Hard. Fast. First. A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance about a girl who doesn’t know her worth—and the hockey star who’d risk his future to prove it to her.