Andi Mattison, a soon to be forty single mom, is starting her life over and her first step is to go back to college. Having recently walked away from a controlling and abusive husband, Andi welcomes the chance to think for herself. Her Liberal Arts education has her re-examining her life, her ideas, questioning her future, her religion, and her sexuality. However, when Andi falls for her lesbian professor, her education becomes anything but academic. Britt Avery has just turned fifty and has never been lucky in love. She left her husband. Her first female love left her, and she hasn't had a lasting or serious relationship since. Those factors alone are enough to deter her from a relationship. But add the fact that her new interest is one of her students, ten years her junior, and Britt Avery professor of English begins writing an intricate, complex narrative.