He is everything she was told to avoid. Juliette, the only child of her father, had spent her life preparing to inherit her father's legacy. Attending girls-only prestigious school, surrounded by other young women, through to high school. Her world had been one of friendships and studies. Unknown of encounters most of others might have experienced. Romance never flashed in her mind. For living in girls-only Catholic dormitory had no men of her age. Only after attending university had she finally encountered them. Even so, she could count them on one hand, and never found them to be particularly interesting. The interesting idea of a man she had inspired by the fictions she watched. Distant view of men, leaving her unprepared for someone as rough-edged as Gunther whose life was a distant style to her own.