Alexandra Hawthorne was born into a family where wealth and power were everything. Her mother controlled every aspect of her life; where she went to college, what she majored in, and even who she dated. Alex desperately wanted freedom from her mother, but she was the good daughter who aimed to please.

On the evening of her twenty-first birthday, Alex is whisked away by the wealthy and handsome Thomas Reynolds. While Tom runs in the same circles as Alex, he follows his heart, which makes him unsuitable in her mother's eyes.

Alex believes she will soon have the liberty she's been craving, but a stranger threatens to destroy everything. Can Alex escape her mother's control and the stranger's obsession?