Gingerbread Masks: Itýs a cookie-cutter collegiate world

by Natalie Inger

Gingerbread Masks exposes some of the truths behind the myths of common college culture. Nineteen-year-old Hannah Summer Spearman was slightly disenchanted with college life, until she met Ivan.Ivan Boishnevekov, a fellow student at Huckman Oak University and member of one of the most popular fraternities at the school, is a boy who would do anything to fit into his new college identity. Ivan is a delightfully entertaining and colorfully offbeat character, who downplays his rich Russian family heritage to better blend into his surroundings at one of the most All-American-apple-pies of universities.Hannah and Ivan find each other and engage in an unlikely romance; a romance that is challenged, tested, and tormented by the pressures of fraternity life. Despite their differences; by a twist of fate; the two keep finding their way back to one another, fighting a constant battle against the fickle and fleeting nature of the college dating scene. The only question How much drama can Hannah take before she breaks?

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007