âDarkly eroticâŚa must readâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable and Black Iris comes a new, sexy romantic suspense novel about two best friends who are torn apart by a life-shattering accidentâŚand the secrets left behind.
Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for grad school, but sheâs got the two things she loves most: her art and her best friendâand sometimes moreâEllis Carraway. Ellis and Vada have a friendship so consuming itâs hard to tell where one girl ends and the other begins. Itâs intense. Itâs a little codependent. And nothing can tear them apart.
Until an accident on an icy winter road changes everything.
Vada is left deeply scarred, both emotionally and physically. Her once-promising art career is cut short. And Ellis pulls away, unwilling to talk about that night. Everything Vada loved is gone. Sheâs got nothing left to lose. So when she meets some smooth-talking entrepreneurs who offer to set her up as a cam girl, she canât say no. All Vada has to do is spend a couple hours each night stripping on webcam, and the âtipsâ come pouring in.
Itâs just a kinky escape from reality until a client gets serious. âBlueâ is mysterious, alluring, and more interested in Vadaâs life than her body. Online, they chat intimately. Blue helps her heal. And he pays well, but he wants her all to himself. No more cam shows. Itâs an easy decision: sheâs starting to fall for him. But the steamier it gets, the more she craves the real man behind the keyboard. So Vada pops the question: Can we meet IRL?
Blue agrees, on one condition. A condition that will bring back a ghost from her past. Now Vada must confront what sheâs been running from. A past full of devastating secretsâthose of others and those sheâs been keeping from herselfâŚ