As an innocent boy of fourteen, Ethan Grey’s titled father sent him off to a third-rate boarding school, where he was sexually assaulted by Hart Collins, a thug of a lordling. Traumatized and enraged, it took every bit of strength for Ethan to bury his past.

Alice Portman is an earl’s daughter who has taken to governessing under an assumed name after her childhood was scarred by the same Hart Collins who went after Ethan. Alice comes to Ethan’s household to look after his two little boys, where together the two grow stronger. But just as they become intimate, Hart Collins turns up and unravels everything.