Under Review: An Academic Thriller

Doctor Rowena Halley hits rock bottom. Then she ends up on a terrorist hit list.

August 2016. Rowena Halley, PhD, is nursing a busted knee and a busted heart. Plus, her career path is on a toilet trajectory and the divisive politics of a particularly fraught election cycle are threatening to bust up her family, too. Then Madison, former student, (former ) drug addict, and troublemaker extraordinaire, comes bursting back into her life.

Rowena is afraid Madison will get her hauled in on drug an...