Description
In Unlucky Mel, PhD candidate Melody Hollings is in the final year of her creative writing program in upstate New York. Her dream life of landing the perfect academic job somewhere far away from her small hometown and publishing her first novel is so close to becoming a reality. But first she has to finish writing that book. Oh, and graduate. To do both, she needs her good friend Ben to reciprocate all the help she''s given him over the years on his writing.
But when Mel''s widowed father starts acting strangely, she is thrown. After chalking it up to a dramatic attempt to manipulate her into moving back in with him, she discovers that he really is suffering from dementia. Now she''ll need to stay local to care for him. Her dream is dying and her best option is to win a postgraduation fellowship through her alma mater.
Despite all the upheaval in Mel''s life, rather than helping her, Ben turns on her in a shocking betrayal. For the first
