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She came home to rebuild a house. She stayed to rebuild a life. Revenge wasn't on the syllabus.
Toni Crane thought she'd left Grace Harbour behind for good. Then life dealt her the full disaster package: a failed marriage, a pink slip, and an orphaned niece. Now she's back, restoring the gloriously ramshackle Fuggly Manor, rebuilding a life she never wanted, and working at the college she couldn't wait to escape.
The house comes with a ghost that lets stray cats inside. The college comes with a killer.
When a professor is murdered and another is targeted, Toni discovers someone is determined to silence anyone who doesn't fall in line. As students dig for the truth and fear spreads across campus, Toni must protect her niece, keep her colleagues alive, outwit a relentless enemy, and resist falling for her infuriatingly charming colleague and neighbor, NJ.
MB Austin’s Independent Study in Revenge is perfect for readers who love sapphic slow burns, quirky haunted houses, queer found family, academic mysteries, razor-sharp humor, and women who approach revenge like an independent study with honors.
MB Austin lives with her wife in Seattle, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Lately she finds herself in her Delaware hometown, tending to her parents, the house they raised her in, and her mother’s garden.
MB ditched her law degree to do law-adjacent work as a Mild-Mannered Civil Servant by Day™. A recent “offer she couldn’t refuse” from DOGE freed her up to find new ways to address the existential crises facing our democracy and the planet.
You can find her upcoming events, links to her socials, sign up for a monthly newsletter, and learn more about her backlist and new releases at www.mbaustinauthor.com