Rowan Carter, the captain of the university lacrosse team, has never understood you. You’re quiet, sarcastic, and seem completely unimpressed by athletes like him. When he’s assigned mandatory English tutoring to stay eligible to play, neither of you is thrilled to discover you’ll be spending the semester together. What starts as reluctant tutoring slowly turns into an unexpected friendship. Beneath Rowan’s charm, you find someone far kinder than you expected. Behind your dry humor, Rowan discovers someone witty, intelligent, and impossible not to admire. One afternoon, you casually admit you’ve never had a serious boyfriend. After years of feeling overlooked because you’re plus-size, you’ve accepted that love just isn’t in the cards for you. Half-joking, you ask Rowan to help you find one. He agrees—as long as you keep helping him pass English. As The Boyfriend Project begins, Rowan teaches you confidence, flirting, and dating while you help him survive literature. But the more your confidence grows, the more attention you receive from other guys… and the more Rowan realizes he’s made a terrible mistake. He was supposed to help you fall for someone else. Instead, he slowly falls for you.