For Kayla Morgan there is nothing shameful about falling for your teacher. She accepts the torrid passion growing between them and knows that he yearns for it too but there's a darkness in his eyes. He has painful secrets, hesitation over her and reservations about just how possible it is for their affair to survive but she's determined to prove just how strong she and they can be.

Ethan Mikkelsen is restless and needs a change. With this new school year beginning in a new town far from his trouble, he's planning on submersing himself in everything but his issues across the country. He doesn't get far though when a girl catches his eye and he can't help but think she sees everything he's trying to hide. He has no time for a relationship, not with his mounting problems and especially not when that same girl sits three seats back from the front of his class.