Skin of Gold

Twenty-year-old November "Nova" Yu was thriving as a creative writing student at Columbia University-until she was sexually assaulted while studying abroad in South Korea. Now back home on Long Island, Nova is unraveling. She must fight for justice in a foreign legal system. Her scholarship is on the line. Her family doesn't know how to hold space for her pain. And the only one who sees her is Dazy, an alluring, passionate young woman from her support group with secrets of her own.

With her, Nova can numb the pain of unsympathetic academic advisors and the ongoing criminal investigation through substance-fueled nights and moments of fleeting tenderness. But when escaping the pain becomes more dangerous than the pain itself, Nova is forced to confront what healing requires-and what survival really costs.