When a lesbian neighbour returns home from Art School, middle-aged Ruth can't deny her attraction. Agnes is quirky, creative, and significantly younger. Despite their age difference, Agnes relishes the attention Ruth pays her.
But Agnes has secrets of her own, disappearing for months at a time. Where does she go? And what emotions are brewing between Ruth’s husband and his closest friend? Everyone on the block seems to be hiding something.
After twenty-five years married to a man, will Ruth choose lust over stability? Or will young Agnes’s demons devour them both?
A lesbian novel.
Giselle Renarde is an award-winning queer Canadian writer. Nominated Toronto’s Best Author in NOW Magazine’s 2015 Readers’ Choice Awards, Giselle's fiction has appeared in nearly 200 short story anthologies, including prestigious collections and Lambda Award-winners. Giselle's juicy novels include Nanny State, Cherry, The Other Side of Ruth, In Shadow, Seven Kisses, and the Lesbian Diaries series.