She's the Department Chair. He's the failing student. The syllabus just got rewritten.
Dr. Vivienne Cross is known across campus as the "Iron Maiden"—a brilliant, terrifyingly strict professor who tolerates no mediocrity. At forty-five, she is a vision of severe, frozen beauty, commanding the lecture hall with an intellect as sharp as her stilettos.
Evan Clarke is twenty-two, coasting on charm and failing her seminar. When Vivienne offers him a chance to salvage his grade through "remedial intensity" at her private home, he expects grueling academic drills. What he finds behind her closed doors is a different kind of education entirely.
In the sanctuary of her hillside home, the lines between teacher and student blur into a haze of sandalwood, silk, and submission. Vivienne demands total surrender—not just of his mind, but of his body. From humiliating discipline in her living room to risky encounters in the university library, Evan learns that to make the grade, he must yield to the terrifying allure of an experienced, dominant woman who knows exactly what she wants.
