An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiancĂ© has just become the president of her collegeâand her new bossâin this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austenâs classic Persuasion.
Anne Corey is about to get schooled.
An English professor in California, sheâs determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All sheâs got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! Sheâs in. But then Adam Martinezâher first love and ex-fiancĂ©âshows up as the collegeâs new president.
Anne should be able to keep herself distracted. After all, sheâs got a book to write, an aging father to take care of, and a new romance developing with the collegeâs insanely hot writer-in-residence. But no matter where she turns, thereâs Adam, as smart and sexy as ever. As the school year advances and her long-buried feelings begin to resurface, Anne begins to wonder whether she just might get a second chance at love.
Funny, smart, and full of heart, this modern ode to Jane Austenâs classic explores what happens when we run into the demons of our past...and when they turn out not to be so bad, after all.