Elizabeth “Lizzy” Morgan is a sheltered, inexperienced yet curious senior in college who has an unusual encounter with a mysterious man, Professor Thorne, where her initial curiosity and attraction finds her stumbling down a rabbit hole, unaware that she is in over her head until she’s in too deep. Ian M. Thorne is a wealthy philanthropist, professor and investor with a secret lifestyle that promotes his true passion, freedom. He doesn’t believe in marriage, commitment, or any social construct that confines people to roles or expectations defined by society's ideologies rather than individual choice. His wealth gave him the ability to create a world free of judgement, constraint, and obligation where his heart is locked down and protected but his mind is free and without limits. This is a world he can live in, a world that makes sense to him . . . that’s until Lizzy shows up. Will she be able to pull him into the light or will she find a home in his darkness?