PC

Elementary school teacher Y/N has dealt with difficult parents before—but none quite like Vivian Moretti. Cold, intimidating, and impossible to read, Vivian is a single mother whose young son constantly finds himself in Y/N’s classroom for all the wrong reasons. Every parent-teacher conference turns into another battle of wills, and neither woman can stand the other. As Y/N becomes determined to help a troubled little boy, she finds herself crossing paths with his mother more and more. Beneath Vivian’s icy exterior lies a fiercely protective parent carrying burdens Y/N can’t begin to understand. What Y/N doesn’t know is that Vivian isn’t just an overworked single mom—she’s the woman who rules the city’s most powerful criminal empire. As their reluctant partnership turns into an unexpected friendship and something far more dangerous, Y/N is pulled into a world of secrets, loyalty, and impossible choices. Falling for the city’s most feared woman was never part of the lesson plan—but neither was discovering that monsters can love just as fiercely as heroes.