"Follow your dreams, and you'll never work a day in your life. Because that field's not hiring."

When a serial harasser collapses face-first into his haupia cheesecake, the Student Retention Office's summer retreat goes from dull to disastrous. Now Professor Molly has to fight to keep her best friend Emma out of the worst kind of trouble — and herself off the unemployment line.

The Case of the Defunct Adjunct is an instructive and edifying tale of passion, pilferage, and petty politics in the middle of the Pacific.