Escape From Academia

She thought the system would protect her. She was wrong. Professor Samantha Reeves arrives at a summer university seminar expecting three weeks of teaching, research, and a much-needed change of scenery. What she gets instead is a late-night phone call with nothing but breathing on the line-and a student who leans across her desk and tells her, in a voice just above a whisper, that no one would know if he put his hands around her neck.
When Samantha reports the threat to the dean, she expects support. What she gets is careful language, sideways glances, and the quiet suggestion that these things can get complicated. The university's grievance process stretches out before her like a trap. The student keeps showing up. The notes start appearing under her door. Escape from Academia is a tense, propulsive novella about a woman who discovers that the institutions she built her life around were never built to protect her-and who must decide, with the clock ticking, whether to fight a system that has already decided to look the other way, or to do the one thing she never imagined doing: run.
Gripping, atmospheric, and achingly real, this is a story about power, fear, and the particular courage it takes to choose yourself over everything you've worked for.