Nightswimming

She called his books "emotional anesthesia." He called her novels "beautiful misery tourism." Now literary darling Maeve Farrow and bestselling romance author Kieran Westcott are sharing a porch at a beachside writers' colony in South Carolina, each hiding grief that has stolen their ability to write. A reckless wager—she'll write a romance, he'll write a tragedy—forces them into dangerous proximity, where the line between fiction and feeling dissolves with every midnight conversation, every accidental touch, every page exchanged. But when art borrows too deeply from life, the truths they've whispered in the dark become weapons that could destroy everything.