In the heart of a frost bitten Ontario winter, Elara Vance is a ghost in a designer house. Six months ago, a rain slicked highway stole her parents and her pulse, leaving her as the charity project of the elite Sterling family. She was supposed to blend into the shadows of their Oakville estate and finish her degree at U of T without making a sound.
Then there's Julian Sterling.
He's the University's golden boy, the heir to a venture capital empire with eyes like frozen Lake Ontario and a heart to match. To the rest of the world, he's a god. To Elara, he's a predator who smells like cold malice. Julian doesn't want a sister. He wants the intruder out of his house and away from his inheritance, and he's prepared to turn the campus into her personal hell to make it happen.
But Elara has already survived a wreckage that would have buried him. While every other girl on campus bows to the Prince of Oakville, Elara is the only one who refuses to blink.
As a brutal snowstorm traps them behind the glass walls of the Sterling mansion, the friction between them begins to generate a dangerous kind of heat. Hatred is a thin line, and in the dead of night, Julian's arrogance starts to look a lot like obsession. He wants to break her; she wants to survive him. Neither of them realized that in a war of hearts, the first one to catch fire is the one who loses everything.
Heir of Arrogance: In a house built on secrets and stone cold wealth, the only thing more dangerous than his hate is the way he looks at her when the lights go out.
