Freed from the constraints of his parents, Brian sees the indifference of the faculty and administration at his college as a license to hustle. If academia values experimentation, then profiting from unethical business practices on campus is a good thing, right? Brian and his classmate Elspeth go all in on a scheme that will make the student body happy and score them a fortune in the process. MADE OF FAIL is a comedic look at a day in the life of Brian Carriker, who first appeared in Lake's novel THE TWENTYFIRSTERS. If college is the time of life in which to discover oneself, then do it fast because moral compromise is on the other side of graduation day.