It started with a crash. A near-death encounter, one flash of chrome, and laughter that changed everything.
Ezrah Williams was the debate prodigy — brilliant, disciplined, and allergic to chaos. Ryder Brown was Crestview’s golden boy — hockey captain, reckless flirt, and the last person Ezrah expected to see again after the accident that nearly left him broken.
But fate has a dark sense of humor.
When they’re paired together for a university debate project, what should have been a simple academic exercise turns into something far more dangerous. Every argument becomes a spark, every silence a dare. Pride turns to obsession, rivalry to something electric neither of them can control.
He’s everything Ezrah hates. And everything he can’t seem to stop wanting.
Between biting sarcasm, late-night study sessions, and stolen glances that feel like confessions, lines blur — until the game stops being about winning and starts being about survival. Because when love grows where it shouldn’t, it doesn’t ask for permission… it demands surrender.