Aurora Whitmore doesn’t believe in happy endings anymore. Not after losing her mother. Not after a life that taught her love only ends in grief. At just eighteen, she’s already buried too much of herself—trading laughter for silence, and reckless freedom for cold control. Medical school is her escape. Feelings are not. Until him. Professor Michael Knight is everything she should avoid—older, untouchable, dangerously captivating. There’s something about him she can’t explain… something in the way he looks at her like he sees straight through the walls she built. He doesn’t chase. He doesn’t beg. But somehow… he pulls her in anyway. What starts as curiosity turns into temptation. Temptation turns into obsession. And the more Aurora gets closer, the more she realizes— Michael Knight is not a man she can understand… And loving him may cost her everything. Because some hearts aren’t meant to be touched. And some men… were never meant to feel.