Connie, a 40-year old college professor is beginning a new life in a new city, prompted by her divorce from a fifteen-year marriage. A marriage riddled with emotional abuse and an excessive amount of cheating by her husband, Damon. Matt McDonough, one of the star players on the football team, is in his final year at college. For the past three years it has been all fun and games, but now he is just plain tired and feels as though something is missing, with no idea what it is. Follow Connie and Matt on their journey, as they discover themselves, each other, and what it means to truly be in love.

Junior in college. Star athlete. Constant attention from the opposite sex. On this campus, I'm worshiped. While seven hundred miles away, back in my hometown, I'm still trailer park trash, child of the town tramp, and older sibling to three kids who are counting on me to keep my shit together so I can take them away from the same crappy life I grew up in. These two opposing sides of myself never mix until one person gets a glimpse of the true me. I never expected to connect with anyone like this or want more beyond one night. This may be the real deal. Problem is Dr. Kavanagh's my literature professor. If I start anything with a teacher and we're caught together, I might as well kiss my entire future goodbye, as well as my family's and especially Dr. Kavanagh's. Except sometimes love is worth risking everything. Or at least, it damn well better be, because I can only resist so much.-N. G.-.--Provided by publisher.

Life can change in an instant. It can change when you least expect it. Sometimes it is for the best. I have been a keeper of many secrets since I was old enough to know what secrets were. No one knew the truth, knew the real me and what goes on behind closed doors. No one knows about the abuse I suffer at the hands of my father. No one knows about the cuts and scars I hide from the world. Why? Because I choose for it to be that way. To the outside world, I am your average teenager, but in reality, all I am is a broken girl with no one to love her, to see the real sadness in my eyes. Until him,Ryland, the new boy in town, the stranger that sees right through me from the moment we meet. We are drawn to each other like a moth to a flame, but the more I get to know him, the more I see I am not the only one fighting demons. He has his own. To start with, he was nothing but a pain in my ass, but day by day, we grow closer and become something that the others didn't realize we needed. A bond develops between us that becomes unbreakable. I don't think either of us realized that when two broken souls come together, it would be the thing that gets us both on the road to healing. He shows me something I haven't felt since my mum was still alive, something my father tried to make me believe that I didn't deserve, which is called love.

Having moved to Chicago for her MFA graduate degree in writing, ever-introverted and somewhat geeky Penny is focused on her studies and her own creative writing. While she can't help but imagine what it might be like to be involved with her pretty writing workshop professor, the up-and-coming literary star Harriet Drake, it all just seems like a wild fantasy, a far away dream, until she suddenly finds herself as the object of her older teacher's romantic affections. But Harriet is a complicated older woman, a budding writing luminary, soon destined for awards and accolades. Can Penny keep up with her professor? Is Harriet actually interested in Penny or is she just looking for a fling with a young student? And when life presents Penny with a wild choice, will she be able to seize the day and live in the exciting world of a writer... or will she let this novel age gap romance slip away?

An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise and A Person of Interest Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He’s said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He’s condemned on the walls of the women’s restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty—or his charismatic, volatile wife. My Education is the story of Regina’s mistakes, which only begin in the bedroom, and end—if they do—fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina’s misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Maddie is distracted by his hot professor. What can he do to avoid failing the class?