black&white - Episode 1: HUE:

by Soph Tang

Overview

The color of love, loss, and longing-painted upon the canvas of a broken heart.

Elise is ready for a fresh start at EASS, a prestigious arts and sciences academy across the country. It's a chance for a future; a chance to fulfill her dreams. Most importantly, it's a chance to reconnect with Lily-the love of her life.

But beautiful dreams soon blossom into tangled nightmares; by the end of her first week at EASS, Elise's carefully crafted fantasies have been shattered by the cruelty of reality, leaving her with more questions than answers. To make matters worse, the shadows of her past lurk around every corner, watching her every move, desperate to seep into her heart.

Under the unblinking eye of a dark presence she refuses to acknowledge, the suffocating weight of buried emotions, and classmates who carry their own burdens and mysteries, Elise's story is a hauntingly evocative tale about identity, control, and the human condition-driven fully by the agency and ambitions of its colorful and memorable cast.

For fans of deep psychological drama, paranormal thrills, slow-burning romance, and the intoxicating pull of what we cannot have, black&white will stain itself upon your soul and refuse to fade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798317635619
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/17/2025
Series:	black&white , #1
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Soph Tang is a queer independent author with an obsession for storytelling. After leaving her academic career of cognitive science research in 2020, Soph decided to take a leap and pursue her lifelong dream of being an author. Her debut dark-fantasy novel, Osea, released in July of 2024 to overwhelming positive reception. Then on Valentine's Day of 2025, Decadence-a contemporary lesbian romance novel-was published with critical acclaim and emphatic reviews. Reviewers praised Soph for her devastating and poetic prose, strong and memorable characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and deeply relatable and believable plot.