What Happens in College… by Vanessa M. Knight
(Ritter University #2)
Publication date: August 25th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Publication date: August 25th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
One upload. One thousand likes. One lapse in judgment and she lost it all.
Ritter University Novel – Book Two
Egged house, keyed cars, and lawsuits all behind her, Karina Wolfe needs to bury her past deep beneath the skeletons in her closet. No one can ever find out what she did. No one.
Her freshman year at Ritter University is the perfect opportunity to re-invent a better, shinier, more responsible Karina. Her goal? Keep her head down and stay away from the thing that screwed up her life in the first place—guys. It shouldn’t be that hard, in theory. If only Ryan Kent wasn’t so darn gorgeous.
Ryan Kent is the poster child for responsibility. He’s always done what’s expected of him. He didn’t have much choice. But now that his mother’s cancer is under control, he finally feels free. Almost. If he could only convince his dad to trust him to make his own choices, life would be good. If he could get Karina to take a chance on him, life would be perfect.
Ryan doesn’t know what Karina did before they met. Karina doesn’t know how to protect Ryan. When taking chances collide with trust, can what happens in college endure, or will it stay in college?
*Reader Note*
This Ritter University book is part of series of interconnected but stand-alone books.
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Name the most important
things you think someone needs to experience when they go to college.
What does someone need to
experience in college? Well, that’s a hard question, because experiencing life
is what college is all about. I’ve been doing some thinking, and I think college’s
definition should be, “the act of learning and experimenting, while continuing
the journey into adulthood.”
Of course in my definition
college is a verb, but really is that so far off? Colleging is taking risks and
trying new things. It allows econ majors to take an art course and graphic
design majors to take accounting (Some of you are thinking— no that’s called gen ed—true, but it’s
all part of this idea.). Colleging allows you to search for your passion and
attack it head on once you’ve found it.
College is generally a time
before the constraints of the career or children or mortgage. It’s a time to
view the world through your eyes, as your parents and family aren’t always
there to color your views. This is the time to try foods you’ve never tried,
take classes you never thought you’d take, and step outside of your comfort
zone. Who knows? You might find something you absolutely love just by leaving
that zone.
That doesn’t mean you’ll love
everything you try. But isn’t that another part of college? Making mistakes.
Mistakes allow people to grow and learn, and since learning is in the
definition of college, it’s safe to say making mistakes is all part of the
process.
So, what do I think is the most
important thing to experience in college? Everything. Fall in love. Kiss a
stranger. See a concert for a music genre you’ve never heard of. Go to an open
mic night. Better yet, get on stage for an open mic night. Have your heart
broken. Sing karaoke. Go out with friends. Go out alone. Attend a poetry slam. Read
a book in a genre you’ve never read.
Make the four years count,
colleging your way through school. So when you look back on this time, you’ll
have stories you can share with your children when they ask, and stories you’ll
pay your friends to never, ever repeat.
I write contemporary romance novels with a dash of suspense. I’m a member of Romance Writers of America and Windy City RWA.Living in Chicagoland with my husband, son and menagerie of dogs and cats, keeps me on my toes. When not writing or working or playing wife and mom, I love to scrapbook, watch movies and read anything I can find.
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