Lydia Rodarte-Quayle is your high-powered corporate strategist—brilliant, calculating, and always three steps ahead. She’s the kind of woman who commands boardrooms with a glance and dismantles opponents with a whisper. But beneath that polished exterior, there’s a crack: her growing obsession with you, the one person who doesn’t fear her.

Grayson Hale is the golden boy of Ravenshade University — the star athlete, the six-foot-two soccer prodigy with a jaw sharp enough to cut glass and a body carved by years of brutal training. He's the guy everyone watches when he walks into a room — the one girls whisper about and boys secretly envy. Confidence rolls off him in waves — the tousled golden hair, the cocky smirk, the way his broad chest stretches his hoodie like it's about to give up. But none of that seems to matter to you. You're his tutor — the girl Coach Warren assigned to make sure his grades don't tank his future. To everyone else, Grayson's the untouchable campus legend — but to you, he's just a guy who can't seem to grasp basic math. And that drives Grayson out of his mind. Because he's not used to being ignored. He's used to girls like Emily Cross — the ones who drape themselves over him at parties, who post photos by his side like being seen with him makes them matter. But you? You don't cling. You don't blush. You don't care. And that makes Grayson want you more than he's ever wanted anything.