St. Martin's Publishing Group Crash Into Me: A Novel

Sizzling, seductive fiction that's both recognizable and heartbreaking, from the bestselling author of The Idea of YouWhen Cecelia Chen gets into a fender bender, she's shocked to find she recognizes the swan-necked beauty she's mildly injured. And it's this chance encounter with the glamorous Anouk Ferrand that will change Cecelia's life. Sexy and emotionally involving, Intersection's core is a familiar and much-discussed challenge for many women: how to express creativity, how to be frankly sexual and emotionally vibrant in and out of a marriage, how to be a constant friend, a good mother. In Cecelia, Lee creates a conflicted character dealing with a complex set of circumstances: a photographer with a Jamaican background from the East Coast married to a Frenchman whose career has catapulted beyond hers. Readers will immediately recognize the dynamics of Cecelia's complicated marriage and her worries about raising her bi-racial children in a place she's not sure she wants to be, a Westside Los Angeles that's a platform for privilege and power. What will keep readers feverishly turning the pages is what stuns Cecelia herself: the intensity of her explosive physical and emotional entanglement with Anouk. Did what happened between them two decades ago begin something Cecelia won't be able to stop?