A bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice. These romantic but brutally raw stories explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This short stories collection confirms Lily King as one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart.