At elite Bells University, money is power and Josephine Maradona is queen. The twenty-one-year-old daughter of the campus’s biggest donor rules as “Sweet Poison.” Spoiled, breathtakingly beautiful, and dangerously manipulative, she destroys any strict lecturer who crosses her: seduce, secretly record, frame for misconduct, and watch them burn. With her loyal crew Andrena and Christiana—known as “Chaos”—no one has ever survived her game.Until Professor Winsley Dampson arrives.Twenty-nine, tall, muscular, and covered in tattoos, the new Literature lecturer is uncompromising and fearless. When Josephine storms into his class late, kicks the door open, yanks a girl from her seat by the hair, and threatens him with her father’s name, Winsley doesn’t beg. He grabs her arm, drags her out of the lecture hall, and slams the door in her face—humiliating the untouchable queen in front of everyone.Videos of Josephine crying go viral. For the first time, the campus laughs at her.Shattered and furious, her humiliation fuels a dark obsession. She vows to ruin Professor Winsley by any means—seduction, blackmail, whatever it takes. But the more she chases him, the more she craves him. Unknown to all, Winsley is secretly “Sugar,” the masked singer Josephine has desired from afar.As electric tension sparks between them and stolen moments turn dangerously hot, Josephine’s traumatic past resurfaces. Meanwhile, Winsley’s jealous fiancée, Miss Elara, operates in the shadows as a ruthless stalker, exposing Josephine’s every downfall.In a world of forbidden age-gap desire, power plays, betrayal, and scorching chemistry, Josephine must choose: destroy the only man who’s ever made her feel weak… or surrender completely to the professor who could be her sweetest ruin.A dark, twisty college romance filled with bully heroine redemption, intense passion, and jaw-dropping secrets.