Off the Subject Series by Denise Grover Swank

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Scarlett Goodwin’s world is divided into Before and After.Before she agreed to tutor Tucker price, college junior Scarlett was introvert, struggling with her social anxiety and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes, to her job in the tutoring lab, and then hides in the apartment she shares with her friend, Caroline... moreAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Scarlett Goodwin’s world is divided into Before and After.Before she agreed to tutor Tucker price, college junior Scarlett was introvert, struggling with her social anxiety and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes, to her job in the tutoring lab, and then hides in the apartment she shares with her friend, Caroline.After junior Tucker Price, Southern University’s star soccer player enters the equation, her carefully plotted life is thrown off its axis. Tucker’s failing his required College Algebra class. With his eligibility is at risk, the university chancellor dangles an expensive piece of computer software for the math department if Scarlett agrees to privately tutor him.Tucker’s bad boy, womanizer reputation makes Scarlett wary of any contact, let alone spending several hours a week in close proximity.But from her first encounter, she realizes Tucker isn’t the person everyone else sees. He carries a mountain of secrets which she suspects hold the reason to his self-destructive behavior. But the deeper she delves into the cause of his pain, the deeper she gets sucked into his chaos. Will Scarlett find the happiness she’s looking for, or will she be caught in Tucker’s aftermath? less

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates.Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft. Reed is everything she’s not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring... moreAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates.Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft. Reed is everything she’s not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She sure wasn’t getting trapped in that life again with a man living on a professor’s salary. An encounter with Reed in a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she’s about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her. When she shows up for the first committee meeting for Southern University’s Fall fashion show, a fundraiser for underprivileged kids, Caroline’s horrified to discover the insufferable Reed is the committee chairman. While she refuses to tolerate his totalitarian rule of the committee, she’s not sure she’ll survive the month with her heart—and her pride—intact. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds that her entire life has been redesigned, thanks to Reed Pendergraft. less

Lexi Pendergraft has given up on finding love after a disastrous encounter with her last boyfriend. Instead, she's determined to help her brother Reed--who gave up everything to give her a chance at a semi-normal college experience after her rape a year ago. Reed has a secret he's keeping from Lexi and his fiancee Caroline, and he refuses to tell them what it's about, even when it's destroying his relationship with Caroline... moreLexi Pendergraft has given up on finding love after a disastrous encounter with her last boyfriend. Instead, she's determined to help her brother Reed--who gave up everything to give her a chance at a semi-normal college experience after her rape a year ago. Reed has a secret he's keeping from Lexi and his fiancee Caroline, and he refuses to tell them what it's about, even when it's destroying his relationship with Caroline. Ben Masterson is determined to make it through his final semester of his senior year at Southern University, suffering from sleep deprivation and exhaustion while trying to keep up with his courses and working three part time jobs after losing his full ride scholarship last fall. The last thing he needs is Reed Pendergrafts's little sister complicating things. Yet Ben can't get her off his mind, especially when he realizes that she keeps turning up in a black wig where he bar tends. Lexi's determined to keep her real identity from him, the question is why? less