When Kent Lovely, Mahina State’s one-man hostile work environment, collapses face-first into his cheesecake, the faculty retreat goes from dull to disastrous. Now Professor Molly has to fight to keep an innocent out of prison—and herself off the unemployment line. If you like Dorothy Parker, Sarah Caudwell, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia stories, you’ll enjoy this tale of passion, pilferage, and petty politics in the middle of the Pacific.
The building's only elevator is stuck. The emergency call button doesn't connect to campus security. The digital clock scrolls random characters. No, it's not an alien invasion or an electromagnetic pulse attack. It's called deferred maintenance. When state universities are stuck between rising costs and declining state support, maintenance is one of the easiest things to put off. So when Professor Molly finds the emergency call button doesn't work, she's dismayed, but not surprised.
A graduate student from Hawaii visits the tiny bayou town of Sinful, Louisiana to investigate the effects of the oil spill on the local wildlife. Sinful resident Fortune Redding, who happens to be a CIA operative hiding out from a ruthless arms dealer, worries that the nosy newcomer might blow her cover. But when he makes a gruesome discovery, he unleashes forces that will go to any lengths to protect Sinful's darkest secret.
It used to be that to call someone a "Neanderthal" was to insult both their manners and their mental capacity. But we've learned more about Neanderthals in recent years, including the fact that many of us have Neanderthals in our own family tree. I mean, if 23 and me says I'm three percent Neanderthal, how bad can they really be?
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