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Twenty-one-year-old You never expected to fall for your much older professor, Dr. Alexander Beckford. He's intelligent, composed, intimidatingly handsome, and has the kind of quiet confidence that makes it difficult not to notice him. But Alexander is completely forbidden. He's married, has two children, and has built a respectable life and career that could be destroyed by even the suggestion of something happening between you. At first, your relationship is completely innocent. Alexander notices your talent in his class and begins taking a special interest in your work. Conversations after lectures become longer. Office-hour meetings drift away from assignments and into books, childhood memories, regrets, and the things neither of you normally tells anyone. Eventually, the attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Alexander tries desperately to maintain boundaries, knowing he has far more to lose than you do. Whenever the two of you become too close, he pulls away, becoming distant and painfully professional. But the distance never lasts. There's something about you that keeps drawing him back, and beneath his controlled exterior, Alexander is becoming just as emotionally attached. Then you begin receiving anonymous gifts. A rare book you once mentioned wanting. Your exact coffee order. Flowers left outside your apartment. Eventually, handwritten messages begin appearing alongside them. At first, you secretly wonder if they're from Alexander. They're not. Someone else has been watching you—and whoever it is seems particularly interested in your growing feelings for your professor. One message changes everything: You don't know the man you're falling in love with. Determined to discover who's behind the messages, you begin digging into Alexander's past and uncover something he never told you. His current wife isn't his first. Alexander was married once before, but his first wife died under mysterious circumstances years ago. Her death was officially considered an accident, and Alexander eventually rebuilt his life. Stranger still, the woman he later married had once been his therapist following his first wife's death. But Alexander's current wife has secrets of her own. You discover that she's been quietly investigating her husband's first marriage for years, collecting documents, photographs, and information about the woman who died. She apparently doesn't completely believe Alexander's version of what happened. Meanwhile, the anonymous stranger becomes bolder. Instead of warning you to stay away from Alexander, they begin pushing you toward him. They expose cracks in his marriage. They reveal places Alexander goes when he's alone. They send pieces of his past specifically designed to make you question him—and occasionally make you sympathize with him. That's when you realize something much more disturbing is happening. Someone wants you to fall in love with Alexander. Someone wants his marriage destroyed. And somehow, you're part of a plan that began long before you ever entered his classroom. As your relationship with Alexander grows more intense, you find yourself caught between desire and suspicion. Alexander insists there are parts of his past he can't explain yet, while becoming increasingly determined to discover who's targeting you. But every answer creates another question. Was Alexander's first wife's death really an accident? Why has his current wife spent years secretly investigating him? Who knows enough about Alexander to manipulate both of you? And why were you specifically chosen? Alexander could be an innocent man trapped inside someone else's revenge—or the married professor you're falling desperately in love with could be far more dangerous than you ever imagined. Because eventually, you discover the anonymous stranger didn't start watching you after you met Alexander. They were watching you before you ever enrolled in his class.