Fruit of the Flesh

Independent shop in WedgwoodDirections

Available from Lovestruck in Seattle when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Behind the glamour of Gilded Age New York, a marriage of convenience between an artisan and a ballerina masks their shared appetite for revenge in this darkly seductive gothic romance. In early 1900s New York, former ballerina Petronille De Villier makes an unconventional choice: Marry struggling sculptor Arkady Kamenev. For her, it’s an escape from her family’s unsavory legacy. For him, the De Villier name promises the patronage his art desperately needs. It should be a simple arrangement. But