Autumn Masters is a failure in her own mind. She is about to let her dream of being a writer die when she is given an opportunity that may be too good to be true. She has to navigate dating, sex, attraction, writing, teaching, and learning all at the same time. Will she survive the torture, use it to her advantage, or be swept beneath it all?

The Torture of Autumn

She was being paid to make sure he failed to write a good novel. She’d be more in the spirit of the deal she’d made with his father if she didn’t help him, if she made sure he wrote something that seemed childish and juvenile, that would never in a million years be published anywhere. All she really had to do was make a good show of it. Mr. Jennings wanted his son to fail.


But Steven looked so eager. He wanted to learn so badly. Maybe it was the spirit of the job to make him fail. But it was the wording of it to make him succeed. And she cared a whole lot more for him than she did for his father. In fact, maybe it would be better to make sure he did become a professional writer, if only to piss off his father.


“Okay,” she took a deep breath. “Before I get started, I need to tell you about the single most important tool for a writer.”


Chapter 29: You have to fail before you can succeed.