Marinette has spent years surviving in a house that has never felt like home. Desperate to save enough money to escape her cruel adoptive family, she takes the highest-paying tutoring job on campus without asking any questions.Then she discovers who her new student is.He is the university’s golden boy: rich, arrogant, infuriatingly handsome, and the star of the hockey team. Everyone loves him. Marinette cannot stand him.He thinks she is just another girl chasing his attention. She thinks he is exactly the kind of spoiled, entitled man she has learned to fear.Their tutoring sessions are a disaster. They fight, insult each other, and clash at every turn. But beneath his arrogance, Marinette begins to see something no one else does. And beneath her sharp tongue, he sees how hard she is fighting just to survive.The more time they spend together, the more dangerous it becomes.Because Marinette is running from a past that still haunts her and Adrien might be the first person who has ever made her feel safe.