First published 2013
Nia Simone Bijou has traded Atlanta for Los Angeles, where her writing career flourishes four years after the events that changed her life. Success brings new challenges as she seeks to channel her emotions into her art before potentially settling into marriage and motherhood with the elusive Prada. She discovers an exclusive establishment where wealthy patrons escape reality by adopting alternate identities. The line between her public literary persona and private fantasies begins to dissolve as she loses control of the careful boundaries she once maintained. Her relationship with Prada faces mounting pressures from endless temptations. Her career risks being derailed by impulsive choices. When figures from her past resurface and collide with her present circumstances, Nia must confront the true price of excess in a glittering world where limits seem nonexistent.
Genres: contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Atlanta, Los Angeles
Period: 4 years after events
368 pages · Hardcover · Dutton
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content