Charlie Lindquist is a bit of a mess. At nineteen, she’s two years away from total adulthood and graduating with her Bachelor’s degree, but when she signs up for a new course offered exclusively to English Lit majors, her life will never be normal. The professor is none other than the gorgeous Nate Hawthorne—a man with whom Charlie already shares a tumultuous past. In the struggle to prove to him that she’s more mature and strong-willed than she was at sixteen, she may end up with the opposite result. Either way, Charlie’s got a plan and despite how deliciously dark Hawthorne is, if she’s going down, he’s going down faster and harder and in flames.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.