This story begins in the most unexpected way. Daniel, or Nguyen if you're going off what life he's currently displaying, sleeps with someone at a stupid party while he's stupid drunk. But not just everybody, Aleks.... Aleksandr Sokolova, the girl he and plenty of others in campus have been drooling about. How did he manage to do this within the fact he's one hundred percent sure he is NOT her type? He doesn't know, not even the fact that he just got himself into a mess too hard to untangle himself from. One that he'll let it pass just because...

A double life is an art of deception-and Daisy Lockwood has mastered it. By day, she's a brilliant prosecutor's assistant in Canyon Springs, a rising star in the legal world. By night, she's the reluctant heiress to Theodore Vanderbilt's corrupt empire, a man who owns the city-and her future. Her father forced her into his world, trading her dreams of botany and quiet solitude for power, lies, and bloodstained loyalty. But everything changes when Ash Hollow appears-her father's enigmatic young lover. In him, Daisy sees a reflection of her own trapped soul. Now, she faces an impossible choice: play the perfect daughter, upholding the family's legacy of crime? Or burn it all down, even if it means destroying herself in the process? And what happens when the line between manipulation and desire begins to blur?