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Julia, a young art conservancy professional in Manhattan, marries her college boyfriend and settles into a comfortable life in a wealthy borough. Her world shatters when her husband’s true nature comes to light: a swindling fraudster with a drug habit. Faced with betrayal, Julia finds herself drawn into the pulsating club scene of Manhattan, where she experiments with kink and indulges in erotic fantasies beyond anything she imagined. The novel follows her journey of self-discovery, sexual liberation, and the high‑stakes drama of redefining her identity amid an urban backdrop of nightlife and deception.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Antoinette Powell
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