Clara Bennett stays on campus for Christmas to finish her extra credit, and forget her life outside the dorm walls.
She expects silence, deadlines, and empty halls, but instead she gets Professor Kane.
He is brilliant, controlled, and impossible to ignore, he offers help when the library closes for the night. One late study session turns into another, and soon the line between student and professor starts to blur in ways neither of them can take back.
Snow falls outside, the campus empties, and every meeting starts to feel like a mistake she doesn't want to stop making. Because some assignments aren't meant to stay academic, and some professors were never meant to be just professors.