Life glitters with promise, luxury, power, and the illusions of freedom. Professor Rivera is respected 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. He had everything under his control. That is, until Chloe Blackwell storms into his lecture hall. She's hot. She's intelligent and stubborn; her research into organized crime begins pulling her toward secrets that were never meant to be uncovered. What starts as curiosity becomes a forbidden desire.