Debug My Crush

When Bayview High’s tutoring app crashes on launch day, a perfectionist teen coder is forced to team up with the calm new boy who can read her code almost as easily as her heart.

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Willa built Bayview Loop to make asking for help easier. She did not build it to fail in front of the whole school.

When her tutoring app crashes on launch morning, the last person she wants help from is Leo, the quiet transfer student who spots the problem faster than she does and somehow stays calm while everything around her starts falling apart. Forced into an after-school debug partnership, Willa and Leo work side by side to save the project, protect the truth behind it, and keep one ugly week from wrecking more than code.

But the closer they get to the real source of the damage, the harder it becomes to ignore what is changing between them. In a school where credit, visibility, and trust can turn fragile fast, Willa has to decide whether letting someone in will strengthen everything she built or leave her with more to lose than ever.

Debug My Crush is a clean YA STEM romance about late-night logic, quiet courage, and what happens when the right person sees the part of you that never meant to be readable.