The Nerd and the Bombshell

Daisy Shaw is used to being noticed for all the wrong reasons. At Isla Lake College, she's the blonde bombshell with the perfect smile, the quick comeback, and the reputation everyone thinks they understand. But behind the lip gloss and confidence, Daisy is juggling a failed internship, family pressure at her mother's struggling beachside inn, and the exhausting habit of making everyone else's problems easier. Corey Nicolson is the quiet engineering nerd who fixes broken things, avoids attention, and keeps his life organized down to the last detail. He is not Daisy's type. He is too careful, too serious, and far too good at seeing through the jokes she uses to keep people at a distance. One bonfire. One unexpected night. One condom mishap neither of them can forget. When two pink lines turn their private mistake into a very public complication, Daisy and Corey are forced into each other's lives in ways neither of them planned. Campus gossip spreads fast. Family expectations tighten. Corey's dream fellowship could pull him away just when Daisy needs to know whether he is staying because he wants her-or because he thinks it is the right thing to do. Daisy does not want to become someone's responsibility. Corey does not want to disappear when things get hard. But somewhere between clinic appointments, coffee-kiosk projects, broken fans, late-night texts, and the kind of chemistry neither of them can joke away, the nerd and the bombshell discover that one night may have changed everything for more than one reason. A new adult college romance featuring accidental pregnancy, opposites-attract chemistry, a shy nerd hero, a confident heroine, campus gossip, beach-town family pressure, and a heartfelt happily-for-now.