Beta House: Book One

Crestmore College’s most notorious tradition lives at Beta House, an annex of the Alpha Beta Omega fraternity where, every semester, five men select one woman to serve as their housegirl. Room and board in exchange for availability—domestic and sexual. It’s the kind of arrangement that runs on rumor and whispers, not official records.

This year, the house expected the usual desperate applicant. Instead, Arianna Wallace walked through the door. Former homecoming queen. Ex-girlfriend of Jake Hunter, Crestmore’s star quarterback. The girl who once had it all—and lost it in front of the entire campus.

For Arianna, becoming the housegirl isn’t desperation. It’s revenge, escape, and desire all at once. She wants to burn out the last traces of Jake, prove she can’t be humiliated, and take control of her own pleasure. What she doesn’t expect is how each of the five men challenges her differently—Brett’s goofy awe, Jaleel’s quiet intensity, Marshall’s conflicted attraction, Lucas’s authority under pressure, and Ethan’s hesitant leadership.

Ethan never wanted a storm to hit his house, but he can’t deny Arianna’s pull—or the way she sees through him. She’s confident, snarky, impossible to ignore, and determined to test the limits of every rule Beta House runs on. He’s the one she pushes hardest, the one she secretly wants to step up, take charge, and keep her from spinning out.

As fall semester unfolds, rumors spread, tempers flare, and loyalties are tested. Arianna revels in her new role but soon realizes it’s more than revenge—it’s belonging. And when finals approach, she has to decide if she’ll leave with her degree or stay where the rules, the risks, and the men have become exactly what she craves.