It was the way she folded her bottom lip at the end of her words, pinching it beneath her upper ivories. She’d bite down almost to the point of puncture, favoring one side, creating a welcomed disturbance inside of me.
Clive’s kicking was just hard enough for me to confuse it for an enemy in my dreams, but not enough to pull me from my head trip and thrust me back into the arctic bough of the real world.
Sixty years after The Seclusion, in which America sealed itself off from the outside world, Patch Collins navigates the panoptic nightmare of a total surveillance state.
It’s terrifying and harsh, sad and hilarious. A gripping coming-of-age story about friendship, death, and finding one’s self, set against the backdrop of a provocative Hollywood lifestyle.
His journalism career ended badly. Hers hasn’t started. If they can’t discover who robbed a San Francisco museum, they’ll both wind up in the obituaries. Order now for some high stakes larceny!
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