Jaded: A Novel

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History meets Carola Lovering’s Tell Me Lies in “an addictive campus novel that slips a knife beneath the ribs of desire, marriage, and power” (Chelsea Bieker, bestselling author of Madwoman): When a mysterious young woman comes between two married professors, their carefully crafted cat-and-mouse game crumbles, as prey becomes predator.

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. W...