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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A passionate and powerful romancefeaturing a transgender man and an exOrthodox womanwho 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 heartachingAshley 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 havent 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 selfsabotage Shes lucky enough to hit it off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city But the morning after their mindblowing hookup reality comes knocking When Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom Ely realizes the manshe just spent the night with the man whose name she couldnt hear over the loud club music is her teacher

Everyone in the art world is obsessed with Wyatt Cole Hes immensely talented and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him even more compelling But behind closed doors Wyatts 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 cant risk it all for Ely no matter how attracted to her he is or how bad he feels about insisting shedrop 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 Wyatts walls begin to break down and each artist fights for whats right in front of thema person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible