Notes on a Quiet Obsession.

When Cillian Murphy, a best-selling private author, retreats from the spotlight to teach literature at the private sanctuary of Thornebridge University, he expects a quiet life filled with lecture halls, rainy evenings on the coast of Rhode Island, and the occasional faculty event. He's brilliant, aloof, and too composed to be real. He's respected from a distance-which he prefers.

Until she moves in next door.

Aria Vanderlyn, a mysterious and beautiful 23-year-old student with a peculiar personality and a secretive past, appears one gray morning as his new neighbor. She's elegance wrapped in sweet, deadly silence, with icy gray storm-colored eyes and an accent that belongs nowhere. She's an artist, a pure mystery. She's a lucky girl who was adopted into old money and raised in a house far too cold to be ever called home.

Cillian tries to ignore her at first, but she is everywhere. In his seminar, across his fence, sleeping in eerie silence, just a door away. She's brilliant, quiet, and utterly composed in a way that rivals his own. She never speaks out unless spoken to first, and when she does, her words are plucked carefully.

He thinks he is imagining it all. The glances, the tension, the way she sometimes lingers. What begins as fleeting, thrilling intrigue spirals into something deeper-something delicate, intimate, and very, oh so very wrong. His reputation, already weighed by the mythologized whispers, begins to crack with the pressure of his desire. Aria's adoptive father grows suspicious. Aria remains ever unreadable, but through his eyes, he can tell she is not as innocent as she seems.

TLDR: Cillian Murphy finally meets his match in the form of icy sweet gray eyes and pretty brown hair