Jasmine Adejare Soyinka is a flagrant avoider. She keeps her heart buried beneath case files that adorn her messy desk. Her detachment bleeds into every corner of her life-missed calls from her mother, friendships thinned to polite check-ins, and a loneliness that creeps against the bridge of her back. But, something flickers and arrests her world from its slumber when she meets Imani Lux Crawford in a noisy bar. Passionate, messy and forward. Imani doesn't believe that Jasmine should suspend herself to a lifetime of avoidance, life is too short to live in such an abyss. She is interested in Jasmine, in a way no one has been in a long time. What starts as a tipsy connection built off misunderstanding quickly sparkles into something strange and in bloom in Jasmine's garden. More human. More tangible. More sacred. Can Jasmine let herself believe that she is deserving of a boundless love without reproach and without shame? Or will she do what she has always done . . . Self-abandon and run?
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