Dell
September 2023
On Sale: September 5, 2023
304 pages ISBN: 0593500512 EAN: 9780593500514 Kindle: B09Q8CSWDH Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
A passionate and powerful romance featuring
a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find
each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love
despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee
“A sensual love story about art and passion . .
. emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley
Poston, New York Times bestselling author
of The Dead Romantics
Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost
a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully
healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to
study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of
good things to come, right? They could be, as long as Ely
resists self-sabotage. She’s lucky enough to hit it
off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city.
But the morning after their mind-blowing hookup, reality
comes knocking. When Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom,
Ely realizes the man she just spent the night with, the
man whose name she couldn’t hear over the loud club
music, is her teacher.
Everyone in the art world
is obsessed with Wyatt Cole. He’s immensely talented
and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him even
more compelling. But behind closed doors, Wyatt’s past
is a painful memory. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt
was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned
by his family. Since these traumatic experiences, Wyatt has
worked hard for his sobriety and his flourishing art career.
He can’t risk it all for Ely, no matter how attracted
to her he is or how bad he feels about insisting
she drop his class in exchange for
a strictly professional mentorship. Wyatt can help
with her capstone photography project, but he cannot, under
any circumstances, fall in love with her in the process.
Through the lens of her camera, Ely must confront
the reason she left New York in the first place: the
Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because
of her substance abuse. Along the way, Wyatt’s walls
begin to break down, and each artist fights for what’s
right in front of them—a person who sees them for all
that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever
imagined possible.