Marquis

Marquis Beaumont arrives at Ashford University with a duffel bag, a Bible, and $387 from a grandmother who gave him everything she had. He leaves eighteen months later with a composition notebook full of secrets, a machine that generated $15,000 a month, and a name no one at the university will ever speak again.
Between arrival and departure: a boy from New Orleans's Ninth Ward discovers that the elite Virginia university that offered him a scholarship also runs on an economy no brochure adv...