With everything against you, how long would you wait for love?

After losing her mother and moving across the country, fiery Charlotte Keating refuses to let her light die. She throws herself into her job as Oakwood University’s librarian, seeking some much-needed stability.

Then Mason Hale walks in—a privileged campus hotshot carrying the weight of his father's expectations and a lifetime of pain he's desperate to escape.

Their connection is instant. Electric. When a fake relationship spirals into something real, Charlotte and Mason discover what it means to truly be seen by another person.

But as secrets unravel and the world presses in, they'll face an impossible choice: surrender to the pressure surrounding them, or fight for a love worth everything.