His voice dropped, low and dangerous. "Every time you close your eyes, you will feel my hands on you. You will crave the way I break you... and you will beg me to do it again...." ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Life glitters with promise, luxury, power, and beautiful illusions of freedom. Professor Nicolás Rivera is respected, brilliant, and impossible to read. At Vanderwood University, he is known for demanding excellence. Beyond campus, whispers of his name carry a very different kind of fear. Then Chloe Blackwell storms into his lecture hall. Fiercely intelligent and dangerously stubborn, her research into organized crime begins pulling her toward secrets that were never meant to be uncovered. What starts as curiosity becomes obsession. And in a city where euphoria masks poison, some secrets are deadly when brought into the light. How long until the light exposes them both?