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At St. Augustine's Academy, appearances are everything.
Edward Thorne, the esteemed headmaster, has built his life on discipline, prestige, and control. To the world, he is the perfect figure of authority - a husband, a father, a man of integrity.
But when Clara Hayes, his brightest and most ambitious student, steps into his classroom, the boundaries Edward has lived by begin to blur. What begins as mentorship soon spirals into something far more dangerous - a forbidden attraction that threatens to unravel them both.
Whispers spread through the halls. A suspicious colleague grows too watchful. And at home, Edward's wife begins to suspect the cracks in her perfect marriage. With each stolen moment, the risk grows greater, the obsession tighter, the fall more inevitable.
As reputation, marriage, and future hang in the balance, Edward must choose: cling to the life he has built, or surrender to the one thing he cannot resist.
But every secret has a cost - and theirs may demand everything.