In the fall of her senior year of college, our narrator meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus, the boys invite her into their world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter, and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love, and her own intellectual ambition. But soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. Decades later, when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.