Four years after her family's scandal destroyed her life, Penelope Stavros is back at Ravencrest Academy as an instructor, staring straight at the razor-tongued heir who helped bury her brother. Elliot Kenworthy is now in her elite mentorship program as punishment, and the last thing she needs is his heated stares or the dangerous secret he's hiding about the night that ruined her. But when that secret surfaces, the man she despises most becomes the only one who can help her—and the only one whose touch makes her forget why she should hate him. One wrong move and they'll both burn.
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The fog pressed against Ravencrest's stone walls like it had something to hide. Penelope Stavros stepped off the shuttle van and her heel caught on the same goddamn loose flagstone by the east archway...
Read more →The faculty lounge coffee tasted bitter on Penelope's tongue as she reviewed her notes the next morning. Elliot's napkin note still burned in her pocket, its cryptic warning about the recording tucked...
Read more →The clock on Penelope's desk read 11:47 when the soft knock came. She had been staring at the same paragraph of redmarked essays for twenty minutes, the ink bleeding where her pen had pressed too hard...
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