Cassidy is done moving through her life as the headline-making other woman. She’s paid for what she did as a young campaign intern in spades.

After five years of working on anti-bullying initiatives in D.C., she returns to her hometown, Berkeley, to recalibrate—and she quickly falls into bed with her high-school nemesis Leon, the slacker to her try-hard. It’s just a one-night thing. That is, until they both find themselves helping their mutual friend Willa open her new ceramics studio and Cassidy sees Leon in a new light. If everyone’s misjudged her, is there a chance she’s underestimated him, too?

Alexandra Romanoff is a journalist, a cultural critic, and the author of Big Fan, which Vogue described as “political intrigue with a side of spine-tingling romance.” She has written three young-adult novels under Zan Romanoff, and she also cohosts the podcast On the Bleachers, which examines the intersection of sports and pop culture. She lives and writes in LA.