Twins: A Coming-of-Age Novella

She was eighteen, about to jump out of a birthday cake.
He was sixty, the man she was supposed to impress.
Neither expected what came next. When Katie Monahan, a yearning, big-dreaming high-school senior with no real friends and a dead grandmother she still talks to, agrees to a reckless scheme to earn two hundred dollars, she ends up naked, terrified, and at the mercy of strangers. But the birthday boy, Ralph, surprises her. He is gruff, quietly grieving, and carrying a guilt of his own. The...