The Closer

Nora Bishop has a five-year plan, a full course load, and exactly one weakness: Julian March, the kind, easy-smiling classics major she's been quietly in love with since freshman orientation and too terrified to ever actually talk to. She's the top-ranked tutor at Ashworth College's peer learning center — brilliant with numbers, hopeless with her own heart — and when the wealthiest, most infuriating boy on campus corners her with a deal, she almost laughs him out of the library.

Weston Calloway doesn't fail things. Heir to one of the largest shipping fortunes on the East Coast, captain of a rowing team on the edge of a national title, Wes has spent his whole life being effortlessly, publicly excellent — which is exactly why no one can find out he's about to fail the economics requirement standing between him and Olympic trial eligibility. He needs a tutor. Nora needs a plan that finally gets Julian to notice her. The deal is simple: she'll save his GPA, and he'll play her devoted, doting boyfriend at exactly the parties where it counts.

It should be easy. It isn't.

Wes turns out to be funnier, humbler, and far more guarded than the golden-boy headlines suggest — a boy who's spent his whole life being loved for his name and has never once been loved for anything else. Nora turns out to be the first person who argues with him, corrects him, and still shows up the next day anyway. Somewhere between fake dates and real study sessions, the boy she's borrowing to win someone else's attention becomes the only attention she actually wants.

The deal has an expiration date. Their feelings didn't get the memo.

Tropes: Billionaire, Fake Dating, Tutoring Trope, He Falls First, Opposites Attract, New Adult Romance