Young Lady Seraphine Vale is used to doors opening for her. At Blackthorne Academy, an elite postgraduate institution for future ministers and royals, her name buys her privilege, not protection.

After one too many provocations, she is summoned to the headmaster’s private study, expecting a lecture she can shrug off. Instead, Dr. Lucien Hawthorne offers a choice that makes her pulse stutter: walk out untouched, or step in and submit to his discipline.

Seraphine tells herself she can endure anything for the sake of her pride. Then his gaze strips her bare, his voice turns every reprimand into a promise, and his hand teaches her body a shocking new truth. The sting becomes heat. The shame becomes want. The authority she resents becomes the only thing she craves.

Because Lucien is not interested in breaking her for sport.

He wants her to choose surrender… and beg for more.

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