Aria Bennett comes home one night expecting an ordinary evening with the man she's loved for five years.Instead, she walks into her bedroom and finds her boyfriend in bed with another man.The betrayal destroys everything she thought she knew about her relationship. And when Logan expects her to simply accept his lover and continue being part of their twisted arrangement, Aria decides she's had enough.That night, she goes out with her friends, drinks more than she should, accepts a stupid dare, and walks straight into the VIP booth of the most intimidating man she's ever seen.He's cold. Arrogant. Gorgeous.And before the night is over, she kisses him.Aria expects to wake up the next morning with nothing more than a terrible hangover and a blurry memory of Mr. Grumpy.She never expects to see him again. Until two months later, when he walks into her biology class.He's her new professor.Adrian Blackwood remembers their night too. And while Aria tries to pretend it never happened, staying away from each other becomes harder with every passing day.But there's something Adrian hasn't told her.Her mysterious professor is actually the Northern Mafia King, a man feared by everyone who knows his real name.And Aria has every reason to hate men like him.Years ago, a mafia gang murdered her family, leaving her with a hatred of the underworld she has carried ever since. If she discovers the truth about Adrian, she may never forgive him for keeping it from her.But Adrian isn't the only problem.His jealous fiancée is determined to get rid of Aria, while his most dangerous rival discovers that the woman Adrian loves could be the perfect weapon against him.The closer Aria gets to Adrian, the deeper she falls into a world she swore she'd never enter.And when she finally discovers that the man she's falling in love with is the very kind of man she has spent her whole life hating, she'll have to decide what's stronger—the hatred she's carried for years... or the love she never meant to find.retract