Board of Education, but northern cities are largely lost in the narrative. The history textbooks tell all about Jim Crow segregation and Brown v. But after five years of teaching in Boston’s public school system, I was used to it by now.īack in the 1970s, there had been an attempt to integrate Boston’s public schools. I could have predicted the look she gave me-a mix of sympathy and bewilderment.
My waitress rested the coffee pot at her hip. “Oh, are you at the Friends School?” She named the private elementary school only a few blocks from our location. I shuffled through the remaining papers on the table. “You’ll have me bouncing off the walls pretty soon.” I placed my hand over my nearly empty coffee cup. My waitress smiled down on me, a filled coffee pot in one hand. I looked up from the lined paper that was rapidly becoming marked up by my green pen.
“I before E, you guys,” I muttered aloud. I cringed at the misspelled word on the next line: Field. I scribbled the correct spelling next to the misspelled word. “Oh, you nearly got it, Aidan,” I murmured. No part of this book may be reproduced, re-sold, or transmitted electronically or otherwise, without written permission from the author.Īpophis: Love Story for the End of the World Any resemblance to events, locales, or real persons, living or dead, other than those in the public domain, is entirely coincidental. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Her flashbacks of Afghanistan are getting progressively worse, her new police partner resents her existence, and she's not sure she's truly forgiven Julia for what happened in Embarrass.This is a work of fiction. Cassidy can take off the uniform, but she can't shake the soldier. In the tiny town of Embarrass, Minnesota, she met Julia Desjardin, the distant yet devastatingly beautiful city prosecutor, sparking a romance neither could have anticipated.Now, back in Minneapolis, things are starting to look up for Cassidy: she and Julia have reconciled, and she's hoping to be reinstated with the Minneapolis police soon. She'd left the military, joined the Minneapolis city police, only to voluntarily remove herself from active duty. New from Eliza Lentzski: Damaged Goods - the sequel to Don't Call Me Hero.The past few years had been difficult for former Marine, Cassidy Miller.
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