Tenure — Rick Cook

In Tenure, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Toi, a freshman at a small college in New York's Finger Lakes region, hopes to cast away the pain and humiliation she endured during high school and start anew. But then a seminar assignment, dogs, coffee cups, and sheer luck combine and lead Liz to discoveries about her friends, herself, and a deep dark secret involving the legendary author and professor Rick O'Halloran. As the mystery unravels, O'Halloran's prot©g©, Professor Jim Harris, tries to regain his confidence, overcome his writer's block and achieve tenure.