Seeds of Passion by Lola Lockhart

Delilah Greer doesn’t do trust or attachment and she certainly doesn’t do Troy Hawkins—campus golden boy with a smile that makes her want to slap him… or kiss him.

For four years, she’s survived UMS on black coffee and hard work, keeping her head down and her walls high. But when the university’s most prestigious competition forces her to partner with her academic nemesis, disaster feels inevitable.

Troy Hawkins is everything she resents—engineering genius, infuriatingly laid-back, and distractingly hot. She expects arrogance. Ego. Maybe a few arguments.
She doesn’t expect to like the way he listens.
Or how her thighs clench when he leans over her desk and smiles like he knows exactly what she needs.

Everyone wants Troy Hawkins. Delilah is the only one who doesn’t.
Which is exactly why he can’t stop falling for her. She’s guarded. Sharp. Brilliant.
And for the first time in his life, Troy wants something he can’t charm his way into—he wants her.
As rivalry turns into reluctant collaboration, and late nights blur into something softer, they start building more than just a project.

But when trust has always been your biggest design flaw…
How do you risk everything on the one person who could bring your whole world crashing down?

Book 3 in the University of Mountain Springs series but can be read as a standalone.

A spicy enemies-to-lovers college romance packed with academic tension, golden boy obsession, grumpy girl energy, and the slowest of burns.