STEM whiz Kelsey Charming is struggling to manage her senior year of high school, her newly appointed spot in the homeowners association after the death of her grandmother and her absentee father that is not so absent now that there are potential rental properties at stake. Add in a slew of advanced AP classes, including English with the most difficult (and hottest) teacher in school and Winter Cotillion right around the corner Kelsey is feeling the pressure. Can she juggle new responsibilities and a secret that could destroy her life and another if it got out?

Alex Danvers is perfectly happy with his bachelor lifestyle. He's content with his job as an English teacher at Lambency High, lives for taking his sailboat, the Echo Delta, out on the water and finally has his condo and rental property at Lumen Cove renovated. But his world is about to be turned upside down when he's talked in to helping the school STEM prodigy make it through his Senior AP course. Add in an unexpected visitor from his past, a secret that could ruin his career and a literal life and death choice and Alex is brought to the brink of just how much he can handle.