Lila Raicek: The Plunge, Gebunden

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I had become good at hiding things, and most of all from myself.

Weeks before her wedding, Liv's fiancé is killed in a tragic accident, an ending that makes headlines. Broken and grieving, she flees Los Angeles for New York, finding sanctuary in the apartment of an old mentor. One night, her phone rings and she hears his voice. "What are you wearing?" he asks. "All black," she responds. "I'm in mourning for my life." An hour later, Liv is headed to a party to meet him.

At the party, guests whisper and stare at her. Liv is about to leave when she sees him: Damon, her magnetic former neighbor. He introduces her to Isabel, a beguiling older widow, and Liv is intrigued by their charged dynamic. Are they together? Desperate for escape, Liv is soon drawn into their dazzling orbit and becomes entangled in their lives.

But when an investigative journalist invades their social circle, threatening to expose a devastating secret from her past, Liv begins to unravel. She falls into an all-consuming affair with Damon, one complicated by her growing affection for Isabel. As their lives come to a shattering breaking point over the course of one summer, Liv finds herself pushed to a dangerous edge.

Moving from Manhattan to the North Fork to Lake Como, The Plunge is a taut, searing novel about desire and deception, obsession and betrayal. With razor-sharp prose and emotional precision, it explores the ravages of guilt and cost of passion, and marks the emergence of a resonant and provocative new voice in fiction.