To the university, Pierce Sterling is the youngest, most effortlessly attractive history professor on campus—an untouchable, old-money billionaire with a sub-zero attitude. To you, his senior honours student, he is a forbidden obsession. You’ve crossed a dangerous line into a strictly confidential relationship, where the catastrophic weight of scandal could destroy his career and family legacy and your future in a single breath. Yet, the true torment is the agonizing push and pull of his trauma. One night he pulls you into his world with consuming intensity; the next, his fear of vulnerability flips his "cold switch," leaving your texts on read and freezing you out with professional indifference. He is terrified to let you in, but when a charismatic classmate starts openly pursuing you, the secrecy becomes a prison. Pierce’s carefully structured walls begin to fracture, exposing a toxic, possessive jealousy that threatens to expose your secret and completely ruin you both.