Riley King, 19, is the effortlessly popular golden girl-blonde, bold, and used to getting her way. With a sharp tongue and a perfect smile, she hides the pressure of a wealthy, demanding home life behind a bratty, flirtatious exterior. Maya Wells, 27, is a sharp-witted English professor known for her intellect, quiet intensity, and unapologetic queerness. Beneath her composed exterior is a woman shaped by a complicated past and the quiet strength it takes to raise a five-year-old on her own. She's fiercely protective of the life she's built and the heart she's kept guarded until one student begins to test the rules she's always lived by. In a world of strict rules and unspoken expectations, one unexpected connection begins to blur the lines between right and wrong. On a campus built on appearances and ambition, something quiet but undeniable begins to grow slowly, dangerously, and far beyond what either of them intended. It starts with a glance, a challenge, a moment that should've meant nothing. But some stories don't follow the rules and some feelings refuse to stay hidden. HIGHEST RANKS 1 #txs

These women thought their paths would never align. Romy Vanelle never dreamed of working in a run-down pizza shop. The prestigious cooking academy La Cherief is supposed to be her escape. Little does she know that the gorgeous disaster who once ordered a pineapple pizza with garlic buns will soon become the person she fears most: Arabella Renette, world-famous chef-and Romy's strict, perfection-obsessed instructor, who mysteriously stopped cooking years ago. Keeping the elite scholarship that keeps her afloat won't be her only challenge. She'll also have to survive the dangerously attractive chef who watches her every move. Romy likes to taste the danger. And she soon realizes she'll have to take everything with... A Grain of Salt.