Hard Lessons — Ruth P. Watson

Hard Lessons is set in Rochester, New York. It is the story of Lainey Robinson, whose young adult life begins to spin out of control when she finds comfort in the arms of her chemistry teacher, a man twice her age. She learns, the hard way that relationships do not always turn out as depicted in romance novels. And the final exam at the end of this course in real life is tougher than any Lainey imagined.