NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: PopSugar She Reads Publishers Weekly 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.
