In The Margins: Falling For Your Tutor Was Not Part Of Plan

She was supposed to just survive tutoring sessions. She never expected to fall in love in the margins of her own life.Tan has one job this year: stop wasting her evenings, start acting like the top student her mother expects her to be. Instead, she's spent her whole life halfway between who she's supposed to be and who she actually is - comfortable, unbothered, and very much not thinking about her future.Then her mother's "friend's son" shows up at her door to tutor her, and every plan Tan had for her lazy, uncomplicated life quietly falls apart.Zane Callahan is guarded, precise, and impossible to read - the kind of person who rations his words like they cost something. He isn't looking for anything more than a favor to his mother. He definitely isn't looking to notice the way Tan blushes over pudding, or to catch himself waiting for her, or to let anyone close enough to matter again - not after what the last person who got close enough did to him.But somewhere between exam pressure, a jealous rival, a family expecting more than either of them knows how to give, and every carefully "rationed" smile Zane didn't mean to let slip, something neither of them planned for starts to grow - quiet, slow, and real.In the Margins is a slow-burn campus romance about the space between who you're expected to be and who you're falling in love as - about learning to want something without bracing for it to go wrong, and about the terrifying, worthwhile risk of finally letting someone all the way in.Some lessons, it turns out, you don't learn from books.