At Velvet Mexico, a publishing house specializing in lesbian erotica, writers must prove that they live what they write about, under the watchful eye of the sophisticated editor, Claudia, and her two partners, Gabrielle and Sybil, who impose unique and relentless rules.When Elena—a passionate fan, bank employee, and lover of her boss Luca—agrees to cross the threshold of their exclusive club, she immediately understands that there, "personal attention" comes before ...

A sapphic Gothic novel of gambling, blackmail, desire, and female power.In 1950s Turin, Giulia, Countess Pinotti, belongs to a world already in ruins: emptied noble titles, mortgaged estates, gambling debts, elegant parties, and marriages held together by money, shame, and appearances. Between Turin’s salons and a castle perched in the hills of the Canavese, her elegant life conceals a slow descent into blackmail, dependence, and the loss of herself.At the ...

Where Desire Does Not LiberateA Dark Reversal of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lesbian PanicBetween the implacable shadows of the rooms of a castle in the Upper Canavese—transformed into chambers of consciousness—and a 1950s Turin of smoke and stone, where everyone lives a double life, unfolds the story of Giulia, a fallen countess armed with a fascination that captivates and obsesses.Torn between gambling and a fragile husband,...

Modernist narrative has long been described either as the triumph of interiority or as the crisis of the subject. Perceptual Misalignment proposes a different account.Introducing the concept of perceptual misalignment, this study argues that modernist fiction does not simply deepen consciousness nor dissolve it, but exposes its structural insufficiency in relation to the perceptual field the text constructs. What emerges in Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Beckett is a recurrent...

In a future where technology has redefined intimacy, emotions, and power, some women navigate between forbidden passions and unmentionable desires.Isabelle believed she had a perfect marriage. Until she discovers that her husband's mistress is nothing more than a female android with devastating sensuality. What begins as an erotic game turns into an abyss where she gradually loses control.Sybil belongs to a coven of witches and possesses a revolutionary neurovisual interface ...

This critical essay reconsiders the persistence of modernism through William Faulkner’s treatment of fractured consciousness and myth. Rather than approaching modernism as a historical style or a repertoire of narrative techniques, the essay argues for its continuity as an epistemological and ethical problem centered on the responsibility of consciousness.Focusing on Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun, and The Reivers, the essay traces three configurations of fr...

Isabella is married. She has a home, a job, a life that, from the outside, already seems to have taken shape. But there are lives that do not break when they lose everything; they break when they discover that nothing enclosing them truly belongs to them. When Claudia, her boss, decides to cross the line between power and desire, and Sophie enters their orbit as a young, visionary, destabilizing force, Isabella’s world ceases to be habitable and becomes a field of pressure. And beneath it ...

“Full of passion and rich historical detail . . . an enthralling read, impossible to put down.” —Phyllis T. Smith, bestselling author of I Am Livia and The Daughters of Palatine Hill“This is Venice beneath the mask: A dark and fascinating love story hiding in the shadows of the golden city.” —Marina Fiorato, bestselling author of The Glassblower of MuranoSet in eighteenth-century Venice and based on an actual account by Giacomo Casanov...

The eighth Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery from the author of The Bottom of Your Heart "will surprise readers at every turn" ( La Reppublica).In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as clues to the latest crime he has been asked to investi...

The basis for the Disney-produced series on Hulu The Lions of Sicily“A blazing epic of countless twists and turns.”—Le Figaro**"A compelling combination of historical sweep and family drama" –Kirkus ReviewsFrom the author of the acclaimed The Florios of Sicily, a magnificent novel that explores the origins of one of Italy’s most powerful and notorious families, men and wo...

A darkness takes shape beneath the waters of Venice . . .and somewhere in the Ospedale della Pietà,there are two girls breathing beside each other,legs entwined.'Enchanting and suspenseful' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Rich and heartbreaking' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A lush, decadent fairytale' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Serialized in the short-lived Olympia Magazine. On a self-imposed exile in a Sicilian village, a gal with three kids forces her own rebirth in this Mediterranean take on Lawrence's Plumed Serpent.