First published 2011
Luke Crisp walks away from everything his father built. The CEO of Fortune 500 Crisp's Copy Centers wants to hand over the family business to his business school graduate son. Luke turns him down. He takes his trust fund and disappears into a life of excess and waste. The money runs out. His friends vanish. Luke finds himself broke, alone, and too proud to call home for help. He takes a job at the bottom of one of his father's copy centers, working under a fake name. Nobody knows who he really is. At the store, Luke meets a single mother struggling to make ends meet. She changes how he sees the world. Luke begins to understand what actually matters in life. The prologue promises this is a story about second chances, about doing things right when you get another opportunity. Luke must decide whether to reveal his identity and face his father, or continue hiding from the life he was meant to live.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, redemption
Setting: Crisp's Copy Centers
Period: 21st-century
346 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster