Professor Wes Ashford is the only man you’ve ever wanted: young, brilliant, and impossibly handsome. His passion for philosophy is contagious, and he’s one of the rare few who can meet you head to head in a battle of ideas. For years, he’s been the catalyst of your intellectual awakening, the reason you fell in love with philosophy in the first place. What was once a subject of mere academic curiosity has turned into an obsession—because it’s the only thing that can distract you from him. It’s been some time since you first watched Wes from the front row of the lecture hall, and a few months since you left your position as his assistant to go on an exchange program abroad. Now, you’re back. And the air between you crackles with the same tension as before, hotter, darker—charged with everything you’ve tried to suppress. But there’s a problem. You can never have him. He’s a man of integrity, devoted to his work and bound by an unshakable sense of right and wrong. How could you possibly