Ivy Shrouds University, Chancellor’s Secrets in New Book
Concord, NC (PRWEB) August 18, 2014 -- In the new book by Margaret Garrison, “Prez: A Story of Love” (published by Abbott Press), a high-ranking female university official falls in love with a married man, resulting in major internal conflict.
Katherine Embright is chancellor of North Carolina’s Wickfield University during an era when female executives had to fight for equal recognition. When she discovers she has colon cancer, she decides to keep her illness a secret from the public eye.
But the one person who can help her maintain privacy is Paul Stafford, the security officer who ignites her romantic feelings. As their relationship grows, Katherine faces the moral implications of a head-versus-heart dilemma. Will this secret relationship threaten her reputation and legacy?
“Prez” takes the reader behind the ivy walls of academia into the real-life drama of the human heart. Themes of romantic passion, devotion to family and spiritual grace permeate the pages of this debut romantic fiction.
“Prez”
By Margaret Garrison
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 416 pages | ISBN 9781458216632
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 416 pages | ISBN 9781458216625
E-Book | 416 pages | ISBN 9781458216618
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
About the Author
Margaret Garrison grew up in Concord, North Carolina, a part of North Carolina’s Piedmont region that appears in her novel “Prez.” She spent a year as an exchange student at Japan’s International Christian University in Tokyo. She earned an undergraduate degree from Lenoir-Rhyne University and a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her extensive career included several years in high school and college teaching and in university marketing and communications in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Indiana. She lives in North Carolina. “Prez” is her first novel.
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