Worse Than Getting Caught

Just when Alex Cordman is getting accustomed to life at college, a mysterious, viral book and a worsening series of crimes plague his new city, conspiring to give Alex a more turbulent first semester than he ever could have imagined.

Worse Than Getting Caught presents the story of an underground philosophy and its different interpretations: For one young man, it’s a phenomenon from which to profit. For a single mother, it’s a sublime comfort after the death of her own mother. On another level, the novel tells the story of a young man's sobering first semester in college. When Alex left rural Montana for Saintâ€"Michael University, he never expected that he would get himself wrapped up in a runaway philosophy or make friends with a bona fide delinquentâ€"he'd never done anything bad in his life, after all. And he certainly couldn't have guessed that he would begin dating a 24-year-old single mother.

Told in short, first-person sections by several of the story's characters, Worse Than Getting Caught is a rich tapestry of ideas and motivations, a witness to the testament that few things in life go according to plan.