When you wear a mask long enough… you forget who you were before it.

Fallon: She was born into a prison with velvet bars—wealth, prestige, perfection. But when her older brother dies, the weight of the family legacy lands squarely on her shoulders. The cost of survival? Erasing the girl she once was and becoming who they demand. Quiet. Controlled. Obedient. But then he walks in—her new professor. Dark, dangerous, and not fooled by her porcelain smile. With him, the mask slips… but falling for the one man who sees through her facade might destroy them both.

Pharaoh: Exonerated, but never free....

When you wear a mask long enough… you forget who you were before it.

Fallon: She was born into a prison with velvet bars—wealth, prestige, perfection. But when her older brother dies, the weight of the family legacy lands squarely on her shoulders. The cost of survival? Erasing the girl she once was and becoming who they demand. Quiet. Controlled. Obedient. But then he walks in—her new professor. Dark, dangerous, and not fooled by her porcelain smile. With him, the mask slips… but falling for the one man who sees through her facade might destroy them both.

Pharaoh: Exonerated, but never free. A killer to some, a reformed man to others—he plays the role well. Professor, mentor, the poster boy for redemption. But it’s all just another cage. When a sharp-tongued student starts digging into the past he buried six feet under, Pharaoh is forced to confront the monster everyone thinks he is. She wants to expose him to save herself… but what happens when he wants to save her instead? Even if it means becoming the beast they all fear.

Two fractured souls. One game of masks. With secrets, grief, and the temptation to burn it all down—can Fallon and Pharaoh strip away the lies before the clock runs out? Or will the truth unmask something far more dangerous: Desire. Obsession. And the ruin that comes with it