Only When It's Us

Willa Sutter and Ryder Bergman share a class, and Willa has hated him from the day she sat down next to him. She never says why. Ryder is content to let her dislike stand, because it keeps her at a distance.

Willa is a soccer player, counted among the next generation of women in the sport, with wild hair and a temper to match. Ryder is a quiet, flannel-wearing man with a thick beard and a worn cap pulled low over his eyes. When she asked to borrow his lecture notes, he ignored her, and she has not forgotten it. Neither of them backs down easily.

A final project forces the two to work together. What follows is a running contest of pranks and practical jokes, with each of them set on being the one who comes out ahead. Somewhere in the middle of the games, real feelings creep in, and winning starts to mean something different.

This is a new adult romance in the enemies-to-lovers mold, and it is the first meeting with the Bergman family. The tone is humorous and warm, built on banter and rivalry, with attention to how exposed love can make a person feel. This edition adds new exclusive content and began as a TikTok favorite.