The Thesis

You'll always be my favorite 'what if' ...

Callum Fitzroy

All semester I've tried to keep my identity as a partying billionaire's son a secret.  Then I met the girl of my dreams, and I realized it was time to do the right thing for once.  I was ready to come clean.  Too bad Anya accidentally got the truth before I could explain.  Now she knows that I'm a liar and she wants nothing to do with me.  Worse, with the truth getting out, the media is starting to chase the story – not just the truth about my identity, but the truth about my forbidden affair with my teacher.

Somehow, I have to do the impossible: stop the media from breaking the story and find a way to get Anya to forgive me for everything I've put her through.  All my life I've been able to buy my way out of trouble, but with a girl like Anya, there's no amount of money that's going to buy her forgiveness.  Wealth isn't going to win her over, which means that for the first time in my life, I'll have to earn something on my own merits.  All I have to do is show Anya that taking a chance on me is worth it.

Anya Barton

All my life I've followed the rules.  Until I met Callum.  The hot bad boy who turned out to be my student.  Sneaking around and having a secret affair with a student is against the rules, but when I finally tell the truth to my supervisors, everything backfires.  I lose my job as a TA, the media is hounding me for the story, and worst of all – Callum isn't who he said he was.  I thought that owning up to my mistakes would give me and Callum a clean slate.  A chance at a relationship.  Then, I found out he's been lying to me all semester.  He isn't a working-class student down on his luck.  He's heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.

Now, I don't know if I can believe anyone or anything.  Not Callum, and not my own heart.  Because as much as I still long to be with him, the truth is, I fell for a guy who doesn't exist.  My head tells me to be sensible.  Meanwhile my heart tells me that I'll never meet a guy like him.  On paper, this wealthy, privileged billionaire's son isn't the one for me, and yet, I don't know how I can possibly let him go.

A Campus Romance Series

•The Lecture
•The Syllabus
•The Thesis