"I think you're smart enough to understand how this works, Avery. Actions have consequences. Good or bad-it depends on how you behave." *** Nineteen-year-old Avery Dean has no intention of building a career. Born into wealth, with a trust fund cushioning her every whim, her internship at one of the country's top renewable energy firms is just another box to tick. But everything shifts when she meets Bianca Grant. The CEO exudes power from every detail: her words, her rules, and her silence. What starts as rebellion spirals into fixation. Avery tests limits. Bianca enforces them. And beneath their clipped conversations and veiled looks, something darker brews-something intimate, toxic, and addictively intense. As boundaries blur and submission becomes seduction, Avery finds herself tangled in a game she never agreed to play. Because in Bianca's world, nothing is ever casual, and attention always comes with a price. In a game of dominance and submission, who's really in control?

Ravenswood Academy has rules for submissives and being sassy with your dom was surely not a part of it. But Isabella is sassy and she can't help it. After having one dom at the end of her 1st year. She was now perfectly fine on her own-thank you very much. Sure, she had a slight tendency to run her mouth, couldn't sit still for a punishment to save her life (literally, her bottom still has PTSD), and maybe occasionally cursed like a pirate. But she was surviving. Then came Adrian Vale. Dom. Calculated. Teasing yet built for providing discipline. He was assigned to "handle" her. She assumed that meant paperwork. He assumed it meant bending her over his lap in front of the Headmaster. They've been arguing ever since. He's strict. She's stubborn. He's unreadable. She's dramatic. He calls her "submissive." She calls him "Sir"... most of the time. (When she's not calling him a tyrant under her breath.) He expected complete submission, something Isabella has never truly given before. Because no Dom has ever earned it.