Burning Palms: The Novelization

Los Angeles is a city built on desire, and on the lies people tell themselves to survive it.

In Burning Palms, five interlocking stories unfold across the sun-bleached sprawl of the city, each one probing a different taboo, each one drifting deeper into moral freefall.

A father's bond with his precocious daughter curdles into something unrecognizable. A woman's romantic devotion is dismantled by a single request in the bedroom. A privileged couple imports a human life as casually as a fashio...