Alice Grace Richmond has spent most of her life surviving. At twenty-one, she works two jobs just to keep a roof over her head, while the dream of building a life bigger than the one she was given slowly slips away. Then she lands an opportunity she never expected-personal assistant to Alex Underwood, New York's twenty-four-year-old billionaire businessman. Alex is demanding, secretive and notoriously impossible to work for. Alice should keep her head down, do her job and stay out of his private life. She plans to. Until one strange assignment leads her to a world Alex clearly never intended her to discover. A world of masks, secrets and desires hidden behind closed doors. And when Alice meets a mysterious stranger who makes her forget every rule she promised herself she'd follow, she has no idea the man behind the mask may already be closer than she thinks. Some secrets are safer in the dark. But Alice has never been very good at leaving things alone.