Go gay. Go sad. Go dark. <p/> A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancy--even if it means appropriating a young gay man's tragic story. <p/>Mallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writer's block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, she'll do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strike--and fast. <p/>Enter Leo. He's a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He's vulnerable. He's enigmatic. He's exactly what Mallory has been looking for. <p/>Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leo's story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, it's her story--she's the one who wrote it, after all. <p/>But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story. <p/>A razor-sharp domestic thriller, Fruit Fly will appeal to fans of R. F. Kuang's Yellowface and Yomi Adegoke's The List.
