Lin Yue, a twenty-five-year-old Chinese exchange student, met Luca Rossi, a fifty-two-year-old Italian professor, at Bocconi University in Milan. He was a legend in the business world, a ski instructor, and a demanding academic authority. In the classroom, she was the only student who could handle all his cutting questions; on the mountain, she was a partner who could keep pace with him at his limits.
Their age, status, and past wounds stretched between them like a deep ravine. But above the snowline of the Alps, on the precipice between reason and desire, they began a dangerous game of testing each other. Beneath the cracks in the spring snow lay suppressed passion and a resolve from which there could be no turning back.
This is a contest of power, taboos, and rebirth. As the boundaries of the classroom blur in the snowy mist and the principles that governed their first halves of life crumble under each other's gaze, they must choose: retreat safely to the well-worn paths of convention, or step into that beautiful, deadly, untouched powder snow and face an avalanche powerful enough to reshape their lives.
Love is the riskiest investment of all, and neither of them is willing to cut their losses.
