Jaded: A Novel

The Secret History meets Tell Me Lies, an “impossible to look away from...seductive, unsettling, and razor-sharp novel that slips a knife beneath the ribs of desire, marriage, and power” (Chelsea Bieker, Madwoman) in which two married professors’ annual tradition of seducing a student crumbles when a mysterious young woman enters their lives.

It’s the summer of 1986 on the Kelsey College campus. Sam and Vera Ward got married decades ago and haven’t slept together since. With little desire to...