About the Book: As the ink dries on their fake‑relationship contract, Lady Juvelian and Max awkwardly step into high society as a couple. While tea parties and balls might ease Juvelian into this arrangement, they do little to calm her father’s disapproval—he would never allow his student to date his daughter, and when he realises that Max has genuine feelings for Juvelian, he sets plans in motion to tear them apart. However, the deranged emperor has his own schemes, and to protect Juvelian her father and Max may find themselves aligned. What no one sees coming is Juvelian taking the reins of her own fate.