Here is the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side. “An honest, brutal piece of confession and self-analysis.” —The Guardian

Shana Abé has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance.

When Leon and Solange entered the church everyone was struck by the difference in height between them.

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the ...

Stretching from the cult of Dionysus to the thought of Jacques Lacan, the book takes in en route ideas of God, freedom, the sublime, and the unconscious.

Through Leflore's exploration of self, family, and society runs the "deepest fiction", a search for meaning - personal and world-encompassing. This volume includes a previously unpublished fragment from a third novel, THE THIRD KINGDOM.