At Blackthorne Academy, power hums beneath every stone - and desire is never accidental. Persephone Thrace wants nothing to do with the campus' dark rituals, unspoken rules, or its untouchable golden boy. Hades Blackwood is everything she despises: dangerously attractive, quietly feared, and far too interested in her defiance. She calls him arrogant. He calls her trouble. Their rivalry is sharp. Their chemistry even sharper. Every glance lingers too long. Ever argument feels like foreplay. And the closer Persephone gets to uncovering Blackthorne's secrets, the harder it becomes to ignore the tension coiling between them - heavy, forbidden, and impossible to outrun. Some desires are meant to be resisted. Others are meant to ruin you.