FULL PITCH

Winnie would love to tell you that she participated in her high school’s exchange program because she’s bold and adventurous and interested in learning about her German roots. Of course, she’d mostly be lying. Ninety-nine percent of the reason she spent her spring semester abroad was to escape the messy breakup of her secret relationship with Ahmed Abdelbari.

After five months away, Winnie prepares to return home where she can work through her residual anger by kicking butt at her summer job as a knight in her aunt’s [Medieval Times] restaurant. Just before flying home, Winnie gets a call from her aunt begging her to step in as the dinner tournament’s princess and train a new hire for her old position as a knight, she reluctantly agrees. On her first day back, she’d outraged to find that the new hire is none other than a hotter-than-ever Ahmed. For the sake of her aunt’s beloved business, Winnie teaches Ahmed the combat choreography (without stabbing him even once, she’d like to add), but the longer the two are forced to work together, the more unresolved feelings—and fights—rise to the surface.

Amidst jousting practice, swoon-worthy performances, and staged kisses, Ahmed and Winnie must navigate their conflicted emotions in this exes-to-lovers romance.