She took the job to survive. She didn't expect to care. She never meant to fall. Eve Adair is desperate. With a sick sister depending on her and her family legacy in ruins, she accepts a live-in nanny position for the one man she swore to hate forever . Cassian Rowe, the ruthless billionaire who destroyed her father's name and shattered everything she trusted about justice. Cassian is as cold as the mansion he hides in. Distant. Controlled. Haunted. He doesn't speak of his late wife. He barely speaks at all. But his five-year-old son, Theo: "a silent boy" who hasn't spoken since the fire reaches for Eve in a way that no one else can. What begins as a job quickly unravels into something more. Beneath the silence, Eve discovers grief, guilt, and a family bound together by pain. And the deeper she falls, the harder it becomes to remember why she came in the first place. Because hate is easy when it's far away. But up close? Up close, it looks a lot like love.