“I don’t do firsts. I don’t lose sleep over soft girls in cardigans. But Ivy Wren looked at me like I could give her something better—something safe. And that’s the real problem. Because if I touched her, it wouldn’t be safe. It would be unforgettable.” Summary: Jace Wilder doesn’t fall. He doesn’t remember names, doesn’t replay conversations—until Ivy. After one meeting, she’s already stuck in his head, the kind of girl he swore never to touch. But when he finds himself looking her up, thinking about the way she stared at him like he was something more, Jace knows he’s already in trouble. Ivy’s the first girl he should walk away from... and the last one he wants to.

He didn’t touch me. Didn’t kiss me. Just looked at me like I was something he shouldn’t want—but couldn’t help staring at anyway. And now I’m lying here, hours later, still trying to breathe normally. Still hearing his voice. Still writing about a boy who didn’t even ask my name. Summary: Back in her dorm room after her first college party, Ivy Wren can’t stop thinking about Jace Wilder—the boy with sharp eyes and a rough voice who warned her to stay away. He didn’t flirt. He didn’t ask for her number. But somehow, he left a mark. Now, alone in the quiet, Ivy puts pen to paper and confesses the one thought she can’t shake: what if she wants him to be her first mistake?

“She shouldn’t have come near me. One look at those wide, innocent eyes and I knew she was the kind of girl who stayed in your bloodstream. The kind you ruin without meaning to. So I walked away. Five steps. That’s all I made it before I turned back—because damn it, she was still staring at me like I was something worth wanting.” Summary: Jace Wilder can’t shake the girl in the cardigan. After walking away from Ivy at the party, he tries to convince himself she’s trouble he doesn’t need—too innocent, too curious, too easy to break. But the truth hits fast: Ivy isn’t like anyone he’s met, and the way she looked at him is already under his skin. Jace doesn’t do firsts… yet something about her makes him wish he could.

“You came over here because you were curious,” he said, voice low, dangerous. I swallowed hard. “You don’t look scared of anything,” I whispered. He leaned in, so close I could feel his breath on my skin. “You should be.” Summary: In her first taste of freedom, Ivy Wren steps into a wild college party—and straight into the gaze of Jace Wilder, campus heartbreaker with a reputation as dark as his eyes. What starts as curiosity becomes a slow, electric pull neither of them expects. Their first conversation is charged, tense, and unforgettable. Ivy is soft. Jace is dangerous. And from the moment they lock eyes, nothing stays the same.