Seeds of Trust by Lola Lockhart

She spent two years being in love with someone who never loved her back.
Now she can’t tell if the perfect guy actually wants her—or if she’s misreading the signs again.

Piper Renner is a genius. She can debug any program, optimize any algorithm, solve any technical problem thrown at her. After wasting two years on someone who never loved her back, she’s building a dating app to remove feelings from the equation. But first, she needs to pass Creative Writing or lose her scholarship.

Enter her new tutor: Ethan Prescott, the ex-quarterback turned game designer. She finds him funny (who doesn’t?), charming (obviously), and way too good at making her laugh (dangerous).

Ethan should be focused on his senior project. Instead, he can’t stop thinking about the brilliant girl who’s convinced she’s bad at love. When their tutoring sessions turn…spicy, he realizes he wants to be the one who proves her wrong about everything.

The more time they spend together, the harder it gets to ignore their chemistry. But Piper’s been wrong before, and she’s hiding something that could destroy the fragile trust between them.

Welcome to University of Mountain Springs, where students make terrible romantic decisions, late-night tutoring gets steamy, and you’ll definitely laugh out loud (and…probably cry. Definitely cry.)