Lady Wolf's Library

By: Julie Murphy
Pub Date: 5/05/2026
Genre: College RomCom

Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥(feral)
Tropes: Second Chance, friends to enemies to lovers, fake marriage, one bed

PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

CLOVER ROWAN WALSH knows The Plan™.
1. Get a full ride to her dream school, Wexley University.
2. Conquer the school of business.
3. Say goodbye to the paycheck-to-paycheck life she and her mom have known for years.

There’s just one hiccup. With the first semester rapidly approaching, Clover learns her housing grant has fallen through. But a loophole presents itself: Married couples can live in the dorms for the price of one student. Clover is willing to sacrifice the sanctity of marriage . . . even if it means proposing to the one person she swore she’d never speak to again.

Bennett Andrew Graves is the only heir to the Graves Coffee empire. After spending his first year at Wexley, squeaking by in classes and becoming personally acquainted with the female student body, he is looking forward to living off campus. Until the girl he grew up with (and whom he completely devastated years ago) walks back into his life with the most absurd question: Will you marry me?

Bennett can’t refuse Clover. He owes her this, but that doesn’t change the fact that these two can barely carry on a conversation without getting at each other’s throats. Forget about sharing a dorm—much less one bed.

But as Clover and Bennett hide the true nature of their marriage, they find that playing house isn’t all that bad—especially with certain marital benefits in the mix. In fact, Clover and Bennett are soon forgetting the most important part of their fake marriage of convenience . . . that it’s supposed to be fake.

REVIEW

I highly recommend having something akin to milk on hand, because despite the sunshiney yellow and pop-pink cover, this little honey is 500,000 scovilles of spice!

There’s something about a poor little rich boy being in love with the ‘outcast’ that gets my head spinning and shortens my breath. Add a fake marriage to your enemy (who may already have some less than chivalrous feelings towards our FMC), one bed, and super high stakes if it goes wrong (like a conviction of FRAUD), and you have a recipe for a tension filled RomCom that quickly begins to boil over.

Buried feelings resurface along with some much more adult situations. There are just some intimacies that are inescapable when you live together in a single dorm room with just the one bed that’s basically two beds nailed together and to the floor. Inescapable trap. A simple flash of lingerie here, a bare chest there, and long held feelings start to fly.

Honestly, our Bennett did absolutely deserve Clover’s scorn for what he did when they were teens and definitely owes her at least one…and does he ever give it. With interest. 🥵

Julie Murphy is such a great author and having had the opportunity to read her upcoming solo New Adult and Adult romcoms, her ability to write a fully formed scene and cast is fantastic and the way she writes spice is IMMACULATE. I absolutely loved Student Union and am looking forward to the next book in The Undergrads, All Nighter, featuring our girl Daisy. ❤️

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Publishing for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!