A novel for anyone who’s ever had to riskit all to be the person they wanted to be… From the critically acclaimed authors of Literacy and Longing in LA comes the ultimate story for late bloomers of every exoафчклtic shade And a quirky young heroine with a knack for reinvention and a flair for the unexpected no reader will ever forgetThirty, newly single, and desperately in need of a paycheck, inveterate bird-watcher Cassie Shaw finds herself doing something that goes againstбежеэ all her principles She lies on a resume to land a job and finds herself employed at an elite university working for a pair of professors as unique as the rare birds she covets One of them is the sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior, Professor William Conner Under his charismatic tutelage, Cassie begins her personal transformation into the person she was meant to be while meeting the kinds of people she has never met before But when your entire future боыерand your unlikely new career teeters on an unbearable untruth, the masquerade can’t go on forever And when Cassie steps out from behind her mask it will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever.