Beatrix Blackwood is a lonely 16 year old girl with a secret. That all changes when she meets a boy, Avery Ashford, a new student at the prestigious Greystone Academy who also has a few secrets of his own. Romance, magic, mystery and betrayal all unfold in a quietly unassuming town in New Jersey. (

This novel involves the bittersweet journey of a young, idealistic, naïve attorney who takes on the role of academic dean at a for-profit business school in New York City in the late 1980s knowing very little about the industry. Unable to accept the way things are, he immediately launches into a per