The Professor’s Kiss

At twenty-one, Winter Calloway is used to being underestimated. Fiercely intelligent and quietly intense, she’s built walls to protect her bruised heart and complicated past. When she enrolls in an elite literature seminar during her final year at Briarfield University, she expects more of the same: structure, silence, and solitude. What she doesn't expect is Professor Eleanor Blake.



Elegant, enigmatic, and a decade and a half her senior, Eleanor commands every room she walks into with a voice made of velvet and eyes that seem to read far more than just the words on the page. To her students, she is untouchable. But when Winter pens a paper that cuts deeper than most, she earns more than just praise — she captures Eleanor’s attention.



What begins as subtle glances and late-night office hours quickly spirals into a charged game of restraint and risk. Bound by university rules and their own inner battles, both women are drawn to each other in a way that feels inevitable — and utterly forbidden.



As their connection deepens beyond the classroom, secrets unravel: Eleanor’s past is not as composed as she pretends, and Winter’s heart has been broken in ways she’s never dared to speak aloud. Between them lies a fragile trust, the looming threat of exposure, and the possibility that love — the real kind — might be worth breaking every rule for.



But when desire becomes dangerous and affection turns into something too deep to deny, they’ll have to decide what’s worth risking: their reputations, their futures, or their hearts.