She married her much older university professor immediately after graduating, but life with a husband old enough to be her father soon became unbearably dull. Desperate to get out of the house, she used the teaching license she had casually earned as an adult student and took a temporary position at an adult boys’ school role-play setting. Having known no man but her husband, she was overwhelmed by her adult pupils’ raw desire and eventually fell into an inappropriate affair that cost her both her job and marriage. Hounded by embellished gossip in a small rural town, she fled here convinced she never wanted another man—until another encounter changed everything.