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"The city had a certain kind of expectation of this new start-up college and the students, of course, had a totally different expectation of their role as students." ![]() "There was a tension between the students and the city," said Misemer, a member of the charter class and chairman of the school's foundation board. The 18-year-old's destination was Sarasota, a community that liked the idea of being a college town but was not quite ready for the 101 idealistic students that descended on New College from all corners of the country. ![]() SARASOTA COUNTY - In 1964, Ken Misemer traveled by bus from Missouri to a new experimental liberal arts school in a sleepy, conservative Florida town. ![]() ![]() Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.ĭevil In Winter brings together the most unlikely couple you could ever imagine….a heartless rake who has recently damaged his relationship with his closest friend and an innocent shy wallflower who can barely speak two words to a man without stuttering. or perhaps surrender his own heart for the very first time in the name of true love. She will never become just another of the dashing libertine's callously discarded broken hearts-which means Sebastian will simply have to work harder at his seductions. ![]() Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse.īut Evie's proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. ![]() Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep to offer her hand. Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! 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At school, I was rubbish at just about everything but English, so I went on to Kent University where I did two degrees in English and American Literature. I never thought ‘I want to be a writer’, but I loved books and writing. I used my later diaries for the Diving In trilogy. Then, when I turned thirteen, I began keeping a lurid diary, full of adoration or loathing, depending on who I was writing about. My first foray into writing was a series of nasty spells full of rats’ tails and bats’ wings. When I was a child, I wanted to be a witch. ![]() |