Campus Loves #5

Celia Stone treats the male students on her campus like psychology experiments, using calculated romantic approaches to make each one fall for her—all in service of writing the perfect thesis that'll win her a scholarship to Europe. But when she tries the same tactics on Chuck Fenton, the one man she genuinely cares about, she discovers that real love doesn't follow a scientific formula.

A wealthy young woman arrives at Dexter College expecting her family's influence and money to smooth her path—only to find that the cab driver who refuses to cater to her demands is actually her math instructor, Burt Taylor, a graduate student who doesn't bend to privilege. As she schemes to bring him down a peg, she discovers something far more powerful than wealth or manipulation: genuine love, and what it means to want something for someone else instead of for herself.

A young woman's lifelong habit of using lies to outmaneuver her scheming elder sister follows her to Greystone College—where her deceptions threaten to destroy the one thing she's fought to protect: her romance with Jeff Walters. When Gilda unexpectedly arrives on campus, our heroine sets a dangerous trap using a classmate named Alex as a decoy, only to find her carefully constructed web unraveling with devastating consequences. In this 1950 tale of sisterly rivalry and romantic heartbreak, a girl discovers that the weapons that once defended her may be the very ones that destroy her happiness.

Grace Scott arrives at Benson College with her steady boyfriend Eddie Shane back home, only to have the beautiful and ruthless Lorna Campbell set her sights on him—not out of love, but simply to prove she can. As Grace struggles with her gentle, "nice" nature in this competitive college world, she must figure out whether kindness is a liability or a strength when romance hangs in the balance.

Sunny Drake arrives at staid Cabot College determined to shake things up with her quick wit and irreverent humor, quickly charming the equally lively Larry Dorn into forming a club of mischief-makers. When a quieter student named Bill asks her out, Sunny and Larry play a cruel prank on him that spirals into violence and heartbreak, forcing Sunny to confront what her clever tongue has cost her.