if you're a lover you got to be a fighter

Avery Simmons used to be Knightfall’s best friend. Now she rules their college through wealth, popularity, and dangerous connections, taking special pleasure in humiliating him. Knightfall, a six-foot professional MMA fighter, refuses to fight back while trying to understand what changed her. When Avery’s influence collapses and everyone else disappears, Knightfall stays. Their hostility slowly becomes arguments, late-night honesty, and feelings neither wants to admit survived childhood. Avery must face why she pushed him away, while Knightfall learns that loving her does not mean becoming her punching bag.