Trying her best to make it into the detective team, all FBI agent, Vivian, wants to do is bring her father's murderer to justice. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she'd go to college all over again as a student, only this time to protect a snarky, brooding professor from a dangerous stalker. But the closer she gets to professor Maxim, the more the line between hate and love blurs. And the further away she becomes from finding the notorious criminal who murdered her father. However Maxim proves to be a man with many faces---just as many secrets. One of it being who his real father is: the notorious criminal that killed Vivian's father. In this story, two blazing souls are brought together by the strangest circumstances. Can they survive the odds, without destroying each other in the process?

Annie Stephens is a young woman with big dreams, who meets Tyler, a charming law student. They fall in love, but a devastating secret from Tyler's past comes to light and shatters their relationship. Annie is left heartbroken and questioning everything she thought she knew about love. Will she ever be able to trust again?