"I didn't just want to break you, Aria. I wanted to be the one who redrew you from the wreckage." Aria Lennox is the "Golden Girl" of the elite, a perfect student with a perfect life and a perfectly curated future. But her world is built on a foundation of lies and blood money. Elias Voss: Aria's brother's former best friend, a disgraced artist with river-water eyes and a soul stained by the gutter. He's the man her parents warned her about, the "parasite" who supposedly ruined her brother. Now, he's her new professor and he's turned his classroom into a psychological battlefield. Elias doesn't want her grades. He wants her truth. He's determined to strip away her polished facade until there's nothing left but the girl who wants to burn it all down. As the lines between hate an obsession blur, Aria realizes that Elias isn't just her tormentor, he's the only one who knows the truth about the fire that destroyed her family. And in his dark, ink-stained world, the only way to survive the light is to embrace the shadows. He promised to ruin her. He never mentioned he'd fall for the ruins.