Introductory book for asset pricing and financial economics I am going to complete a continuous time finance course in  the upcoming semester. Although all my higher education is in economics I have not encountered a financial economics setting of contingent markets,i.e, of the geometric representation of the state space of the aforementioned. I have a solid knowledge on investments, financial markets and financial products such as derivatives but I was looking for the mathematical finance formulation of contingent markets. What introductory book would be good for an introduction in the simpler settings before jumping to the Black-Scholes setting for example which is the end-goal of the class I am going to take. Cochrane's book "Asset Pricing" is similar to what I am looking for but I would like to know if there are any alternatives.
If you are looking for something simpler before jumping to Black-Scholes, consider the textbook "Investments" from Bodie, Kane, and Marcus.

You can look at the table of contents. The book assumes that the reader does not know stochastic calculus and continuous time finance, but it still gets to the Black-Scholes formula.