In The Wanting - Permission to Desire

She knows everything about pleasure. Wanting is another matter entirely.She is an award-winning journalist, a sharp-eyed manager of adult creators, and the anonymous woman behind a wildly successful erotic persona. Confident, funny and unapologetically sexual, she understands how attraction is performed, packaged and sold.Then she read 'Golden Fingers' by Giovanni Khan.For nine months, his words have invaded her thoughts, awakened her body and challenged everything she believes about intimacy. When an assignment takes her to a literary expo in rain-soaked Bellingham, she finally comes face-to-face with the man behind the pages.He is older, quieter and far more dangerous than fantasy had prepared her for. He doesn't seduce with spectacle, he seduce through patience, questions, and the unbearable intimacy of paying attention.As curiosity gives way to something rawer, the boundaries between reader and writer, performance and truth, fantasy and lived desire begin to dissolve. She must decide whether wanting is something to control, confess or finally inhabit, and whether the man who awakened her is the destination or merely a doorway.Bold, darkly funny and fearlessly erotic, In the Wanting is a novel about consent, vulnerability and the courage to desire without shame.