Us Against The World (Sample)

At 19, most young adults are worried about college, frat parties, passing classes, over the top professors, career goals, etc. Then there's Persephone Carter. Not your typical college student, she's the wife to her math professor. Growing up her mother held certain family traditions that weren't always easy, resulting in Persephone not always getting to live her life the way she wanted to.

Keeping traditions going and feeling like it was best to pick her daughter's husband, Persephone's parents arranged for her to marry the son of a well-known businessman, but also a close family friend. Will Persephone be able to handle the pressure of being an exceptional student and the perfect wife? Or will she crumble under all the pressure especially when her husband's ex-pops back up threatening to destroy their marriage just when things start to look up?

At 25 years old, most men would either be just getting out of or still be in partying mode; getting drunk and sleeping with different women every night, which Maximus Carter enjoyed doing. After getting his heart broken by his first love, Max said screw love and didn't want anything to do with women, his motto was smash and pass. Also having had to deal with parents who held certain family traditions, Max's parents arranged for him to marry Persephone and just when their marriage was seemingly perfect, Max's ex-comes back in the picture and drops a bombshell. Will Max and Persephone's marriage survive? Or will his ex-succeed in destroying it?