Veiled Curriculums

He built his career on reading minds. She built hers on hiding hers.
Harper Holt doesn't just study crime-she dissects people. As a sophomore Criminology major, her greatest defense is keeping everyone at a distance, analyzing the world from behind an invisible shield. She has her entire academic year planned out down to the minute.
Until she walks into her Advanced Profiling lecture expecting a familiar mentor, only to find Professor Julian Jensen behind the desk.
Julian is young, razor-sharp, and carrying the dark scars of a forensic psychiatry past that almost destroyed him. He runs his classroom like an interrogation room, enforcing strict boundaries and demanding absolute precision. Forced into close quarters as his Teaching Assistant, Harper finds her clinical detachment crumbling. Julian isn't just a professor-he's the first person who looks at her and actually sees through her walls.
As late-autumn rain settles over the brick campus, late-night office hours and sharp debates blur the line between professional restraint and a dangerous, unspoken attraction. But in a room full of psychological mind games, trust is a liability.
Harper is guarding a secret that could destroy her reputation-and Julian has spent years learning how to uncover what people are hiding.
When the truth finally leaks into the light, both will learn that in Julian Jensen's class, the most dangerous subject to study is each other.