Twenty-year-old Amelia knows exactly what kind of relationship she has with Caleb Hayes: teasing comments, lingering eye contact, constant sarcasm, and just enough flirting to keep things interesting - but never enough to make them friends. they sarcastically flirt with each other all the time, neither of them taking it seriously.
Amelia has spent years trying to ignore Caleb Hayes—the boy who seems to live in her house almost as much as she does. As her older brother Alex’s best friend, Caleb has always been there: stealing food from their kitchen, taking over movie nights, and finding new ways to get on her nerves.
Amelia Reed, 23, is just trying to make it home after a long night when she stops at a quiet roadside gas station. Caleb Hayes, 25, is passing through for reasons he won’t explain. They’ve never met, and after a brief exchange, they expect to go their separate ways.
Amelia never expected a simple argument to end with her trapped in a bedroom with Caleb Hayes. One minute they were bickering at a family gathering, the next the old lock on the guest room door jammed shut, leaving them stuck together with no way out. What should have been a minor inconvenience quickly becomes something far more complicated. With hours to kill and nowhere to escape, their usual sarcastic exchanges give way to real conversations, lingering glances, and a tension that’s impossible to ignore. The longer they’re confined together, the harder it becomes for Amelia to remember why she’s spent years fighting with Caleb—and the harder it becomes to ignore the possibility that their constant rivalry has always been hiding something else.
Twenty-year-old Amelia Reed has spent years avoiding Caleb Hayes whenever she can. Cocky, infuriatingly composed, and always convinced he knows best, Caleb has a talent for getting under her skin.