When Esmerelda Harlow steps into the musty halls of Winston High as the new history teacher, with a reputation for being a bitter and arrogant professor, whispers of her arrival ripple through the school. Students are wary, until the reckless student Cameron Monroe allows her interest to morph. Cameron, the school's untouchable rebel with a reputation for detention and carelessness, with a game of causing disturbances. To her, Esmerelda Harlow is just another target-a seemingly uptight woman with strict rules and an aura of authority begging to be challenged. But when Cameron tries her usual antics, she's met with something entirely unexpected: resistance. Esmerelda is not an easy mark. In fact, she's more than Cameron bargained for. Cool-headed and emotionless. Every sarcastic remark is met with calm but devastating wit. Every act of defiance earns a punishment so perfectly tailored, it leaves Cameron seething-and strangely fascinated. Esmerelda sees through Cameron's rebellious exterior to the restless mind beneath it. Cameron, for all her bravado, finds herself caught in Esmerelda's gravitational pull-her intelligence, her poise, and her charm. But Esmerelda isn't here to play games. She's here to teach Cameron a lesson she'll never forget, one that will leave them both questioning the boundaries of power, desire, and control. In the end, it's not just Cameron's life that Esmerelda will upend, -it's her own. In a town where reputations are everything, what happens when two unstoppable forces collide in one university?

Isadora Collins an 18 year old student ready to start her last year of school as a senior, with a troubled past, suffering under her abusive mother and dealing with trauma. Meeting the new English teacher, a woman who turns her world upside down and shows her everything she was afraid of through a new view.

Evianna Ellis thought she was in control-daddy's money, mommy's company, and a face too pretty to question. But when she crosses paths with Harlow 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢, a dangerously powerful older woman with a smile like sin and eyes that don't blink, her world doesn't just shift-it spirals. Harlow is obsessed. She's watching. She knows what Evianna likes, what she fears, what she dreams about when no one's looking. And she has no plans to play fair. This isn't 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. This is 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥. And Evianna? She's addicted to it. 𝐀𝐠𝐞-𝐠𝐚𝐩. 𝐒𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜. This isn't your soft girl romance. It's pretty, and it's toxic. Just how she likes it.