Burlington Public Library

"Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents. The only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole...

When a renowned linguist who teaches men how to communicate with women is publically humiliated by her own straying husband, she fights back by trying to soften the man who made the cover of Fortune magazine's "America's Toughest Bosses" issue.

The author explains how she was raped by a fellow soldier after joining the army, and how, struggling with PTSD and commanders who didn't trust her story, she found herself fighting through the isolation of trauma amid the challenges of an unexpected war.