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    Second to None
    Second to None
    Second to None
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    Second to None

    By ArLynn Leiber Presser

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    SECOND TO NONE, originally published under the byline ArLynn Presser

    Garnet Brown is seventeen years old, has a great mother, a boyfriend Andy, and a cute tutor Grant who is undeniably geeky but somehow still charming and attractive. Her life plan revolves around getting into a good college and getting out of the poor neighborhood she’s lived in her whole life. The one where she’s mostly known as the child of an illicit affair that cost her mother her job and reputation and that left Garnet seeing her father only every few years, in court, where her parents would argue about money.

    So, when her well-to-do father comes to call, asking her to come visit and meet the family: the wife, the older half-brother and the younger half-brother they had after he went back to his wife, there has to be a might big string attached. Like a son with cancer and a last-chance hope that Garnet can be a bone-marrow donor.

    Life hasn’t ever been easy but it’s suddenly gotten way harder and a surprising kiss from Grant turns everything on its head even more than suddenly having a father in her life. The choices are surprising, confusing and surprisingly romantic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781480498075
    Second to None
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    ArLynn Leiber Presser

    ArLynn L. Presser, granddaughter of science fiction and fantasy writer Fritz Leiber, has published more than twenty-seven romance novels. Some have been published under the name ArLynn Presser, but most often she has used the name Vivian Leiber. She lives in the Chicago area, where she writes and directs plays designed to teach ethics to lawyers. She has a law degree and practiced law before becoming a full-time writer. Among her recent publications are a short story, "The Archivist Says Goodbye to His Daily Routine," in the New England Review and Winnetka: Images of America from Arcadia Publishing, both published under her full name.

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