Tristen sighed heavily. He and his cousin Toby couldn't have been more different. He was Ricky to Toby's Dough Boy. He silently wished that he could be as strong and as vocal as Toby. Tristen Graham had worked his entire life toward achieving his academic goals. He'd studied hard and graduated from M.I.T.

at the top of his class. At 22 years old he stepped into a high paying executive position at one of the most prestigious software companies in Texas. Now that he's inside, racism, favoritism and a tight knit good old boy network threatens to derail all that Tristen has worked for, until he decides to fight back the only way he knows how.with his brain.