thomas pubishing

It’s 2010 in NYC.  The School Construction Authority is just finishing the final touches for the finances and planning stages to begin construction on a highly prized, hi-tech academic high school, located in lower Manhattan.  Parents with their prospective offspring are queued up to take the entrance exam before the ground-breaking ceremony.  Behind the scenes, the Project Manager, contractors and sub-contractors are also queued up for a piece of the financial pie, both legit and non-legit.  As the school fills up with students, greed, power, ego, and corruption struggle along with honesty and integrity.

At the same location, Special Education Teacher, Delane Tesser gets a new teaching assignment.  She is apprehensive about starting from scratch in a brand new building containing brilliant college bound students along with the special needs students she is assigned to teach.  She wants to prove that she is capable of making a new teaching program work.  On her first day, she discovers that her arch nemesis, Pinky Pinkus, is her supervisor.  Pinky longs for revenge as he blames Delane for his failure to successfully complete his previous assignment forcing him to transfer out of his former school.  Pinky is determined to thwart any attempts that Delane might have for success in order to force her out of a licensed position that took six years to achieve. Attempting to rebound from a horrific divorce and starting over in a new position, her anxiety level rises as she realizes that two people in her life are untrustworthy and dangerous.