Safe inside herself was how Zoe Walters lived her life. She cocooned her scarred body with layers of clothing and she protected her heart with emotional barbed wire. Studying art at the age of thirty-three, divorced and permanently single, she would soon graduate and strive towards her goal of opening her own gallery. Her housemate and best friend, Tammy, is a young, wild, and sexually promiscuous woman - everything Zoe was not. Drawing a sketch of a naked male pose, just months before graduation, throws Zoe into a cauldron of sexual heat and her handsome teacher, Tim Harper, is drawn to that heat like a moth to a flame. Tammy's father, David, had kept his physical attraction to Zoe a secret but when she begins to show signs of the woman within, he can no longer keep his desires to himself. Will Zoe risk Tim's job and her degree by doing the unthinkable - having an intimate relationship with her teacher? Or will she risk her cherished 'safe' bond with David by letting him into her heart, not just her bed? There is a third contender for Zoe's resurfacing libido, but what this man has in mind for her is far from loving. It is deadly. (Contains sexual references and coarse language. 18 years and over is the recommended audience)