<p><b>From the bestselling author R. O. Kwon, a powerful, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.</b><br><br> At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Phillip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night.<br><br> Cracked open, Jin finds herself telling Lidija about an old familial curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She''s been told that if she doesn''t keep the curse a secret, she risks losing everything; death and ruin could lie ahead. As Jin and Lidija become more entangled, they realize they share more than the ferocity of their ambition, and begin to explor