Description

Your final year at university comes with an expensive intervention: your parents have hired Professor Evelyn Reed, the city’s priciest tutor, to get you through your exams. Known on campus as the Ice Queen, Evelyn is brilliant, married, and fiercely guarded. Yet beneath her immaculate blazers and icy stare, you notice something others have overlooked for years—just how unhappy she has become. In Degrees Of Intimacy, an arrangement meant to rescue your academic future begins to cross into far more personal territory. At first, your tutoring sessions follow a familiar routine. Then the evenings stretch longer, coursework slips out of the conversation, and neither of you can keep pretending that exams are the reason you stay. As the boundaries between you fade, Evelyn’s colleague, Professor Katherine Thorne, becomes involved as well. She brings secrets of her own, kept hidden for years, into a relationship that is growing harder to conceal. What starts between the three of you soon draws the attention of other women, some eager to take part. Behind a locked office door, a private entanglement develops into something larger, complete with its own rules and devoted followers. Dean Cassandra Blackwood calls it a cult, intending the word as a warning. What she does not realize is how close she already stands to stepping through that same door herself.