Spinning Into Gold by Michelene Esposito

Anna Kramer always has a plan, and college is no exception.

She's spent the last four years chasing one dream: get into an Ivy League school, become an Alzheimer's researcher, and make her late grandfather proud.

She's sacrificed sleep. Friends. Fun. A love life. Basically her entire high school experience.

Then...

Poof!

Every Ivy League school rejects her.

With her carefully mapped-out future suddenly unraveling, Anna begins to question everything she thought she wanted.

Enter Finn—the charming, irreverent son of her college coach, who clearly finds Anna's obsession with planning equal parts baffling and entertaining. He's as infuriatingly Team Serendipity as Anna is Team Color-Coded Checklists.

Except...this boy and his impromptu late-night taco truck runs are somehow starting to feel...fun? More than fun?

Maybe he's onto something.

Falling for Finn definitely wasn't on the map. So why is it suddenly the one detour she's tempted to take?

But when a heartbreaking loss changes everything, Anna and Finn must decide whether they're brave enough to let go of the futures they'd envisioned...and reach for the ones they never imagined.

Filled with laugh-out-loud banter, unforgettable friendships, swoony romance, and hard-won hope, Spinning Into Gold is a heartfelt love story of unimagined paths—and discovering that sometimes the best dreams are the ones you never saw coming.