Bitter Sweet: A Novel

When a young book publicist finds herself in an all-consuming workplace affair with her literary idol, she learns that the things you love most can sometimes be the very things that tear you apart in this moving debut novel.

At twenty-three, Charlie's dreams are coming true. She's landed a publishing assistant job at a historic London publishing house, moved into a stunning townhome with two of the most glamorous and generous people she’s ever met, and her favorite author, the award-winning, generation-defining, charming Richard Aveling, is about to publish his magnum opus—and Charlie is going to be working with him.

She's ecstatic to help publish the man whose writing has inspired her since she was a teenager. When Charlie bumps into Richard while having a smoke in the rain, the attraction is immediate, and the moment feels nothing short of cinematic.

So when the Richard Aveling begins taking her advice over that of more senior staff, Charlie finds herself drawn to him despite the thirty-year age gap, his marriage, and the disparity in their power at the publishing house. They begin an affair that Charlie never saw coming, a relationship founded in control and silence.

Too soon, she can’t imagine life without Richard, and too late, she understands that losing him will unravel more than just their relationship…it might also unravel her.

Tender and poignant, Bitter Sweet intimately explores power, vulnerability, what it means to love another person, and what it means to love yourself.