𝐍oah Haveloock had a simple plan: survive. When he needed to get through the next few years, he went to college to become a teacher. When he needed to get through the rest of his life, he moved to Wilmington and took a job at the local high school. Without the past. Without the gossip. Without love. And definitely without Annabeth Larsson. But the young girl had other ideas about what he needed. Bright, charismatic, and relentlessly kind, Annabeth saw something in her grumpy P.E. supervisor that no one else did. She didn't expect that behind his quiet moodiness hid a secret dark enough to pull her under. She could help him. He could destroy her.