Oral Examinations

Dr. Evelyn Vance is the Dean of Arts and Letters at Whitmore University, an untouchable ice queen who has spent two decades maintaining absolute, perfect control. Vaughn Quinn is a brilliant, stubborn psychology PhD candidate who has spent six years studying human behavior-and the last three weeks cataloging the Dean's hidden tells.

When Vaughn's thesis proposal is rejected for the third time, she confronts Evelyn not with academic arguments, but with a devastating psychological proposition:...