Maya Lin has a lot of secrets. To the world, she is a struggling single mom trying to survive law school. But online, she is "Velvet Rose," a famous erotica author whose stories pay the bills for her and her four-year-old son. Her most famous book? A retelling of the single most reckless night of her life: her eighteenth birthday at Secret Pleasures, a masked VIP club where she gave her virginity to a stranger in the dark. What Maya doesn’t know is that the stranger never forgot her. Professor Adrian Black is cold, ruthless, and devastatingly handsome. Since the tragic death of his wife, he has shut down his heart. His only escape is reading the novels of a mysterious online author, the only woman whose words capture the memory of the one night he felt alive again. When Adrian catches Maya writing a steamy scene in his class, she thinks her life is over. But Adrian doesn't report her. He blackmails her. “Be my personal assistant every night, Ms. Lin. Or say goodbye to your scholarship.” Now, Maya is trapped in his office, forced to work closely with the man she despises... and the man she secretly desires. Adrian thinks he’s punishing a bratty student, having no idea that the quiet girl across his desk is the author he’s obsessed with. And he definitely doesn't know that the little boy waiting for her at home... has his exact dark eyes.