Fourteen years before The Hawthorne Divorce , two college students meet among the ivy-covered walls of Harvard University and set off a series of events that will last years... Quiet and mysterious Augustine Grady has big plans after college and won't let anything stand in her way--not even herself and her sudden boredom for life. Her life takes a turn when she catches the attention of charismatic and sly, Rikkard Hawthorne. For the first time in her life, Augustine's found someone who rivals her in intelligence and ambition but her own cautiousness threatens to destroy their love before it even begins... Author Courting Augustine is a 50k novella that follows Rikkard and Augustine falling love and acts as a prequel to The Hawthorne Divorce .