num_pages: 384
description: An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fianc has just become the president of her collegeand her new bossin this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austens classic Persuasion .Anne Corey is about to get schooled.An English professor in California shes determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All shes got to do is get a book deal snag a promotion and boom! Shes in. But then Adam Martinezher first love and ex-fiancshows up as the colleges new president.Anne should be able to keep herself distracted. After all shes got a book to write an aging father to take care of and a new romance developing with the colleges insanely hot writer-in-residence. But no matter where she turns theres 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 Austens 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.
language: English
title: By the Book
publisher: Gallery Books