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Stella Parker, a brilliant 22-year-old criminal psychology grad student at Harvard, is drowning in medical debt for her sick mother. Desperate, she takes a secret night job at an exclusive New York club—only to end up in the wrong penthouse suite, in the arms of a stranger. That stranger is Sebastian Caruso: 28, reclusive billionaire, ruthless head of a powerful crime syndicate… and Harvard's new visiting professor. He's also the older brother of Cameron, her wealthy best friend. One night. No names. She leaves before dawn, thinking she'll never see him again. Then she walks into his lecture hall. Panicked, Stella tries to cover her tracks. She texts Cameron about petting her golden retriever—but the message goes to Sebastian instead. He sees right through the lie. And in front of the entire class, he demonstrates lie detection by taking her pulse. "Your heart rate is 130," he says calmly. "It was exactly the same last night." Thus begins a dangerous game. By day, they're professor and assistant—cold, brilliant, locked in a battle of wits. By night, behind the velvet curtains of his mansion, the real tension unfolds. Sebastian is possessive, controlling, used to getting everything. Stella is stubborn, proud, and refuses to be anyone's charity case. When he offers her money for her mother's surgery, she tears up the check. She'll work for him instead. Equal terms. No debts. But the stakes rise fast. When Sebastian's formidable mother Odette finds out, she offers Stella ten mil