"Eyes, Vanya. They never lie. And yours... yours are screaming for me to ruin you." Vanya is a eighteen-year-old fireball just trying to survive her freshman year. She's got a sharp tongue, a loyal heart, and a habit of getting into trouble-especially when it comes to the campus "royalty." When a heated confrontation with the wrong girl ends in a physical brawl, Vanya finds herself pinned under the lethal, obsidian stare of Ruvan Malhotra. At twenty-three, Ruvan is the heir to a billion-dollar empire. He is cold, calculated, and carrying the weight of a family blood-feud on his shoulders. He was supposed to protect his sister. He was supposed to focus on the shadow assassin hunting his bloodline. He was never supposed to notice the defiant girl with the fire in her eyes. What starts as a bitter college rivalry turns into a dangerous obsession. As Ruvan tracks a killer in the shadows, he finds his gaze constantly drifting back to Vanya. But when Vanya's mother forces her into an engagement with her best friend, Reyansh, the "civilized" heir disappears. Ruvan doesn't do heartbreak. He does takeovers. If he can't have her heart by choice, he'll take her freedom by force. Because once you're caught in his gaze, there is no looking away.