Welcome to Alicia Gilliam's next book project

They don’t call Genealogy 1101 the “death class” for nothing. Without tenure, Peter’s fighting an uphill battle to save his job by soliciting student registrations. How's he supposed to convince vacationing teenagers to spend a semester studying their grandparents? Who could work that miracle?  

Julia, his wife. Er, ex-wife. Wife on hold?

Armed with written boundaries to keep their relationship strictly professional, Julia agrees to spend the summer with Peter as he researches and portrays members of his family tree. She’ll photograph him and flood the school’s social media with a unique marketing campaign. 

Never mind that Peter’s allergic to the limelight. Or that Julia’s keeping secrets about her own family. They've drafted the plan and signed the contract, for better or worse.

When the unsuspecting ex-couple stumble into a family mystery, survive a dreaded road trip, and welcome home a matchmaking daughter, their carefully-laid ground rules are tested in all the right ways.

Operation Guard Your Heart [GUARDRAIL] is a character-driven novel dipped in romance and mystery! Coming Soon . . .