The Tutor

Juniper Hale has spent her entire life running from the shadows of her mother’s scandalous past, burying herself in the dusty, predictable world of classical literature. When a prestigious, anonymous scholarship allows her to complete her PhD at an Ivy League university, she thinks she has finally escaped the poverty that defined her childhood. But there is no such thing as a free lunch—especially when the patron is Sebastian Crane. A ruthless private equity titan and a man whose presence feels like a sudden drop in temperature, Sebastian is a widower shrouded in opulence and cold, calculated silence. When he hires Juniper to tutor his teenage daughter, she believes it is a simple job to cover her living expenses. She doesn’t realize she is walking into a meticulously constructed cage. For six years, Sebastian has watched her from the periphery, tethered to her by a secret that bridges their bloodlines and his own dark obsession. In the suffocating luxury of his Hamptons estate, Jun