Dr. Evelyn Vance is the Dean of Arts and Letters at Whitmore University, an untouchable ice queen who has spent two decades maintaining absolute, perfect control. Vaughn Quinn is a brilliant, stubborn psychology PhD candidate who has spent six years studying human behavior-and the last three weeks cataloging the Dean's hidden tells.
When Vaughn's thesis proposal is rejected for the third time, she confronts Evelyn not with academic arguments, but with a devastating psychological proposition: one hour of total surrender behind the locked door of the Dean's office.
What begins as an illicit, high-stakes game of submission quickly threatens to tear down the careful life Evelyn has built. With a career-defining promotion to Provost on the line, Evelyn must decide if she is willing to risk her reputation, her marriage, and her future for a woman who sees right through her.