The Lecturer’s Secret Subtitle: Midnight in the Midnight City By day, I teach the next generation. By night, I save the men who rule the world. I’m Evelyn Reed, and I live two lives. In the classrooms of Chicago, I’m the dedicated lecturer who demands excellence and drinks far too much coffee. I’m the woman people look past—the one who fades into the background of the "Steel and Ivy" skyline. But when the sun dips below the skyscrapers, I become The Oracle. I’m the ghost in the city’s high-stakes networks, an anonymous consultant the elite pay thousands to for my silence and my solutions. I don't move money; I fix "unfixable" problems. I had one rule: Never let the two worlds touch. Then came Silas Vane. He’s arrogant, impossibly powerful, and the youngest billionaire to ever own the city’s horizon. In the morning, he was the insufferable man who insulted my profession during a heated meeting at my school. By midnight, he was my most desperate client, begging "The Oracle" to stop a corporate hit that threatened to level his empire. He has no idea that the "boring" teacher he looked right through is the only woman who can save him. As we hunt a shadow-hacker through the neon-drenched streets, the line between my identities begins to blur. Silas is used to owning everything he touches, but he’s never met a secret he couldn’t buy—until now. In a city built on deception, my truth might be the most dangerous thing of all.