Lane Cary left for college a few months ago. His best friend turned girlfriend, Regan, is in for a surprise when she visits Lane’s college during her high school science club field trip. Eastern Illinois University’s science department is hosting their yearly Science Extravaganza. The University invites high schools all around the state to come explore the science department and what they have to offer students interested in majoring in science.
Lane’s college is a real university base on a college in Charleston, Illinois. Eastern Illinois University was founded in 1953 on a piece of property located on the south side of highway 16 right in the middle of Charleston, IL.
I took my own field trip to EIU while I was writing Kiss Me Already. It’s a pretty campus, even in the winter. (*Note: winter is not so pretty, so stating it’s a pretty campus in winter says a lot.) With a castle for an administration building, how can you go wrong? The photo I’m sharing is one I snapped of the entry of Booth Library. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but it’s quite beautiful.
Chapter 26 of Kiss Me Already has a scene where Regan twirls in the entry to take in its beauty. If you have read book one of the Regan Stone series, you already know how ready Regan is to go to college and leave her small town behind.
During her visit to EIU, she see’s Lane in his new element. He lives in a new world. A world without her. Regan gets a reality check and a healthy dose of insecurity. What does Lane get out of it?
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