Check Mate (Mass Market Paperback)

LIFE IS LIKE CHESS. North State University has just hired their newest professor. Dionne Harper can't wait to start her assignment. Her unemployed husband is reluctantly along for the ride. They escape the New York city life and head south to small town Grandridge. Professor Harper fits into high class society, while Andre fights to fit in. His interaction with an audacious new neighbor sparks a retaliation neither of them could imagine. WHO DO YOU RUN TO IN A TOWN WITH NO RULES? The community's most powerful citizen teams up with his pool of well-connected friends to teach outsider Andre Harper a lesson he'll never forget. Dionne Harper must choose to align herself with the town’s upper elite or trust her husband one last time. CHOOSE WRONG AND THE RESULTS COULD BE DEADLY....