Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating issues inside a changing college district—and within their lives.

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When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation as well as the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doorways, the lives of three very different ladies converge: Camille Gray–the wife of an about No One Ever Asked: A Novel executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser–faced having a shocking discovery that threatens to rip her picture-perfect world aside at the seams. Jen Covington, the profession nurse whose lengthy, painful trip to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she actually is fighting a happily-ever-after so much harder than she expected. Twenty-two-year-old Anaya Jones–the initial woman in her family members to graduate university and a whole new teacher at Crystal Ridge’s top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg scenario she’s stepped into. Tensions rise within and without, culminating within an unforeseen event that effects them all. This story explores the implicit biases impacting American culture, and asks the best question: Exactly what does it suggest to be individual? What makes we so quick to place labels on each other and categorize people as ‘this’ or ‘that’, when such intricacy exists in each individual?