A novel of ambition, desire & power

Stuck in the Ivy

An elite university. A PhD student. Her startling scientific discovery of flavoring the sexual fluids for women and men. A billion-dollar opportunity. And a question no one wants to answer: who gets to make the rules?

Stuck in the Ivy cover art: red title lettering, green ivy leaf, and J. Adam Russell

What begins as a scientific breakthrough becomes everybody's business.

When a female PhD student discovers how to flavor sexual fluids in men and women, her unlikely invention attracts a billion-dollar valuation in the sexual wellness industry.

But as the opportunity grows, academia, investors, government, and religion each stake a claim—and the battle over who controls the discovery becomes as revealing as the science itself.

Darkly comic · Unapologetically human · A novel about the price of success

The questions no one wants to answer

The Path Begins Here

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