The Importance of Extracurriculars & Other Assumptions

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>You know what they say when you assume...</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Amelia allows herself two fibs a day. Only two. And only fibs-nothing bigger. It's not always convenient but it </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>has</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> worked-earning her a job as Vice-Dean of Admission at Chastain University her Southern Ivy alma mater.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But lies-big or small-might still be her downfall.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Raised by her single mom in a working-class Atlanta neighborhood Amelia-Mimi outside her carefully curated professional life- devoted herself to earning a full scholarship to Chastain University. Since then she has tried to make good on the opportunities she fought so hard to achieve. Her fib policy started in college after a small assumption snowballed into a campus-wide humiliation she's never quite lived down.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>These days Amelia plays everything by the book in her structured efficient and safe life-filled with few people endless nonfiction and a deep belief in meritocracy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A chance run-in with Ethan a nomadic truth-teller of a different sort sparks attraction. But when Chastain U stands accused of a ripped-from-the-headlines admissions scandal ethics suspend the love-match and Amelia becomes complicit in ways she never imagined. Fighting for her place in a world that offers more obstacles than opportunities; good intentions go horribly wrong. Amelia strives to make things right while the hijinks of a cabal of well-meaning geriatrics and the old boys' club of higher education help and hinder but if Amelia's already-lonesome ivory tower crumbles she'll lose everything-her career Ethan... and the fragile relationship with her mother she's only just begun to repair.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A witty heartfelt romance for anyone who's ever bent the truth tried to break the system or been bowled over by love for someone they absolutely <em>shouldn't</em>.</strong></p>