She doesn't perform intimacy. She chooses it. Carefully. Once.
Eve Sinclair is a sophomore at Augustine University on Florida's barrier coast. A journalism student. The daughter of an investigative reporter who disappeared mid-sentence when she was twelve and left her his index cards and a habit of pulling threads.
She doesn't ask questions. She pulls.
Across a year, Eve chooses three encounters. A woman she meets one warm September evening in a bookstore. A visiting professor pulling the same investigative thread she is. And, at three in the morning on a Thursday in October, a choice she makes alone in her own room about a current, a doorway, and a woman down the hall she will not touch.
Each one she chooses. Each one she walks away from sharper, not softer. Always.
A Study in Hunger is the first Eve Sinclair novella. One door into the Augustine Universe.