Rush

“There’s not a better Southern author writing today than Lisa Patton. Funny, touching, and full of twists and turns. I couldn’t have loved it more.” – Fannie Flagg, New York Times bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Rush is recommended by...
Atlanta Journal Constitution as a Southern Beach Book
SouthernLiving.com as a 2018 Beach Read
Deep South Magazine''s Summer Reading List
Southern Independent Bookseller''s Alliance as a SUMMER 2018 OKRA PICK
Modern Mrs. Darcy Fall Lineup
Set in modern day Oxford, Mississippi, on the Ole Miss campus, bestselling author Lisa PattonΓÇÖs RUSH is a story about womenΓÇöfrom both ends of the social ladderΓÇödiscovering their voices and their empowerment.
Cali Watkins possesses all the qualities sororities are looking for in a potential new member. SheΓÇÖs kind and intelligent, makes friends easily, even plans to someday run for governor. But her resume lacks a vital ingredient. Pedigree. Without family money Cali''s chances of sorority membership are already thin, but she has an even bigger problem. If anyone discovers the dark family secrets she''s hiding, sheΓÇÖll be dropped from Rush in an instant.
When Lilith Whitmore, the well-heeled House Corp President of Alpha Delta Beta, one of the premiere sororities on campus, appoints recent empty-nester Wilda to the Rush Advisory Board, Wilda can hardly believe her luck. WhatΓÇÖs more, Lilith suggests their daughters, both incoming freshman, room together. What Wilda doesnΓÇÖt know is that it''s all part of LilithΓÇÖs plan to ensure her own daughter receives an Alpha Delt bidΓÇöno matter what.
For twenty-five years, Miss PearlΓÇöas her ΓÇ£babiesΓÇ¥ like to call herΓÇöhas been housekeeper and a second mother to the Alpha Delt girls, even though it reminds her of a painful part of her past sheΓÇÖll never forget. When an opportunity for promotion arises, it seems a natural fit. But Lilith Whitmore slams her Prada heel down fast, crushing Miss PearlΓÇÖs hopes of a better future. When Wilda and the girls find out, they devise a plan destined to change Alpha Delta BetaΓÇöand maybe the entire Greek systemΓÇöforever.

Achingly poignant, yet laugh-out-loud funny, RUSH takes a sharp nuanced look at a centuries-old tradition while exploring the complex, intimate relationships between mothers and daughters and female friends. Brimming with heart and hope for a better tomorrow, RUSH is an uplifting novel universal to us all.