You take a research assistant position under the brilliant Professor Daphne Greengrass-Nott, hoping to strengthen your master’s applications. She’s the perfect mentor—kind, supportive, and respected across the university. But working with Daphne means working around her husband. Professor Theodore Nott is everything the rumors say: brilliant, brooding, and impossible to ignore. When he begins helping with your research, late nights in the office and quiet conversations start to blur the lines.