Olivia Drake is a 21 year old college transfer student. Running from her past she moves to Atlanta for a fresh start and new life. As she settles in the new city she begins to attend Atlanta University where she meets 23 year old college professor Mr. August Alsina. August Alsina is a very attractive professor from New Orleans Louisiana with a crazy and violent past. He's engaged and is trying to make a living for himself. But the moment he meets his new student Olivia Drake everything changes. He looks at life differently and begins to realize that she's all he wants and more. Olivia challenges him and helps him with things that his fiance never has helped him with. Soon problems from their past come to haunt them and their world's collide unexpectedly. What happens when August and Olivia form an unbreakable bond? Will they become more then friends? Or will the relationship they begin to form become complicated and toxic? Read and find out what happens on this extraordinary journey