After one devastating mistake, Anastasia Miller is expelled from her old school - a decision that still haunts her. Now forced to start over at the elite, twisted Ravenscroft Academy, she's determined to keep her head down, stay out of trouble, and avoid any distractions - especially the romantic kind.
Celibate, silent, and set on survival. That was the plan.
Strong-willed, sharp-tongued, and dead set on staying under the radar, Anastasia has no interest in making friends - or enemies.
That all crashes when her path crosses with Noah Kingsley - the school's too-good-looking-for-his-own-good soccer captain. Cold, rude, and arrogant, he checks off every trait on her stay-the-hell-away list.
So when he accidentally hits her in the head with a soccer ball, Anastasia doesn't just let it slide - she shoves a dead rat into his locker and calls it fair game.
Because if he wants to act like an asshole, she's not afraid to match the energy.
What starts as petty revenge turns into tension, banter, and something neither of them is ready for.
But in a school where appearances are everything and everyone is hiding something, Anastasia's past is a ticking time bomb - and it's only a matter of time before it all explodes.
Because at Ravenscroft, the pretty ones are damaged, the rich ones are ruthless, and even the deepest secrets don't stay buried forever.
The summer before her final semester of college, Nova O'Reilly is dying to make it the summer of her dreams instead she got accepted to the internship of her dreams. Stuck between wanting more out of life and not wanting to disappoint her family she settled on making them happy. Adopted as a child and raised far from the shadows of her true bloodline, she's worked hard to escape the whispers of disappointment from her adopted family but fate drags her back. She lands the internship of a lifetime--- at DeLuca Enterprises, the empire that has a backstory.
Her new boss? Christian DeLuca-- ruthless, calculating and down right dangerously magnetic. On the surface he is a hot rich bachelor whose charming ways seems to get him everything he wants. His bloodline is the reason for her true families demise. She's his sworn enemy and to her innocent eyes he's the man she brings coffee too, who happens to be a bit too arrogant. They're fated to hate each other. Yet when their paths collide, sparks turn into fire and fire turns into obsessions'.
Christian should keep his distance. She's forbidden. She's a Romano, he's a DeLuca but once he has her he can't let her go.
What he doesn't know? Nova isn't as innocent as she seems and in this empire, love ight be the most dangerous sin of them all.