She never expects to reunite with her former high school rival after eight years, let alone fall for him. But fate—and her heart—have other ideas. 

Fashion designer and barista Isabelle Curtis-Wong is content juggling her small business, part-time job, and planning for her first-ever fashion show. Dating isn’t a priority, especially not after the way her last and only relationship ended. 

Enter the cocky and infuriatingly attractive Jackson Carter, who’s returned to New York from abroad to take over his late father’s marketing firm. Jackson has always gotten under Isabelle’s skin—metaphorically only, of course—and that doesn’t change when their paths unexpectedly cross again. 

Being unable to get Isabelle out of his head isn’t part of Jackson’s plan, and when she wants to bring a fake boyfriend to their high school reunion, he finds himself offering to play the role. 

It’s all fun and games, tit for tat, almost like back in school, until it becomes harder and harder to deny that underneath all their tension might lie something more.