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Brighton Brookes life plan is set; she knows how to check all the boxes to achieve her dreams. But when a No Sex bet gets added to her list, life begins to go off the rails-sometimes, in the best way.Smart, capable, and irrevocably driven to succeed, Brighton Brookes has lofty ambitions. She s going to graduate college at the top of her class, get into Harvard Medical School, become a neuroscientist, and dedicate her life to researching the disease that killed her mom. Across campus, Asher Rhoades is used to getting everything he wants; after all, it comes with the territory when you re the campus s star baseball player. Amid fighting his parents insistence on law school, Asher works hard to balance his social life and impress the MLB scouts.When a chance encounter brings Brighton and Asher together, both their predetermined destinies begin to shift as the unmistakable chemistry between them mounts.Asher levels a bet to Brighton: enter into a sex bet to see who can make the other beg first. When, not if, Brighton wins, she ll get a summer internship with Asher s MLB team, sufficiently adding to her medical school application.At first, the bet is easy. But Asher has a way of making Brighton weak when she doesn t want to be. Soon, he s her biggest cheerleader about her career, comforts her after a patient dies, and shows up at her sorority mixer just to bask in her presence. He desires her so fiercely that he declares he s falling in love with her in front of 200 people.But Brighton can t go there. With one wrong step, she could do a lot more damage than falling behind on her med school applications.Will Brighton give the man she can t stop thinking and dreaming about a chance? Or does she stick with her promise to herself-which means no flings, no relationships, and no attachments whatsoever, in hopes of protecting the people she loves from heartbreak?