Elle Johnson has spent her entire life in a Youth Center in Tucson, Arizona, and that might have been okay if they hadn't detected certain special abilities in her. To put it bluntly, our protagonist, in addition to possessing devastating beauty, is considered a genius. She's now nineteen, studying Architecture and working. Everything seems to be going well... until her sister's platonic crush confesses his feelings for her. What could she do? Accept the famous Newman Scholarship and move to New York, four thousand miles from home. Then she falls hopelessly in love with her Structural Engineering professor, the imposing Robert Newman—basically a god walking among mortals—and... well, now she has problems she doesn't know how to solve... First part of the ELLE EMPIRE trilogy.