When a repressed, middle-aged academic meets an intense young man, she is drawn into his pagan cult, where she disassembles her emotional walls inadvertently releasing a dangerous, buried rage.

When a repressed academic meets a pagan, she succumbs to her inner rage and must ___ before ___ happens.

I suggest cutting out the irrelevant facts and slim things down while also including the main issue that your MC must deal with and if not, then the consequences.