Rian Falwell's life as art teacher at Albin Academy is smooth sailing, until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world and ignites a heated conflict that would leave them sworn enemies, if not for a common goal: a student in peril. They shouldn't want each other. They shouldn't even like each other. Yet as they fight to save a young man from the edge, they discover much more about each other, and about themselves.