“She wasn’t supposed to his type. She was too young. Too broken. Too forbidden. But she tasted like sin—and he hadn’t felt anything in years.” At Everridge Academy, appearances are everything. For Rory Bishop, that means short skirts, perfect makeup, sharp smiles and secrets buried deep enough to almost forget. Until a new counselor steps into her life. He is older. Off-limits. Too composed. Too patient—and asks the kind of questions that unravel her. But beneath the soft spoken words and steady hands is something darker. Something hungry. She doesn’t know his story, but she does know that when he looks at her, she burns. And when he touches her, she forgets everything else. But this isn’t a love story. It’s a warning. Because some obsessions don’t end in happily ever after. They end with hands around throats, whispered promises in the dark and a girl realizing far too late that she might be the prey. Trigger Warnings: Contains dark themes including obsession, emotional manipulation, graphic violence, trauma bonding, class-based bullying, and mature s****l content with psychological imbalance. Reader discretion is advised (18+).