After getting dumped by their long-term partners on the same night, best friends Tina and Noah make a pact: no dating, focus on self-improvement. Can they navigate heartbreak and personal growth together, or will old habits and lingering feelings get in the way?

Mia Hope, a quiet high schooler haunted by a past trauma, finds sanctuary in the late-night hours of The Coffee Pod, using caffeine to ward off nightmares. Her carefully constructed solitude is shattered when Jake Carpenter, the popular star quarterback, suddenly appears at her haven. An unlikely pact forms: Mia agrees to tutor Jake, who's failing English and risks losing football, under a set of strict rules. But their deal is complicated by Jake's challenge: Mia must give up coffee until Christmas, or tutor him for free. As Mia battles caffeine withdrawal and encroaching nightmares, she also navigates the unexpected attention their alliance brings and begins to uncover the hidden depths beneath Jake's golden-boy facade.

Seventeen-year-old Mia Hope has only one thing in common with the popular quarterback, Jake Carpenter: a shared love for coffee. When a failing grade forces Jake to seek Mia's tutoring, they strike an unusual bargain. If Mia can survive without her beloved coffee, Jake will pay her triple. What starts as a simple bet between reluctant allies soon brews into something far more complicated as their connection deepens and hidden truths threaten to spill over.

He will give me what I want most in the world, but in return, he will kill me. At just six years old, I made a blood pact with Alpha Damon. He promised to protect me until my father's killer was found. But that was before he found out what I was. Years later, my life is in danger, and he finally shows himself. That's when I discover what he really wants, and the hunt begins.