Tainted

What are you willing to sacrifice to have love? Your dignity, heart, time, tears? Alyssa Parker she gives up all of the above as well as her physical health when she entangles herself in an open relationship with former fling and roommate Adian Harrison.

When Alyssa moves from Detroit to NY she thinks she has abandoned all of her drama, but quickly finds herself in a bigger mess when it becomes impossible to keep Adian out of her bed and out of her heart. A series of unwise decisions and morally questionable behavior leads them to an open relationship with Alyssa's arch-nemesis and an emotionally unstable young woman willing to go to any measure to get Adian to herself, including keeping life charging secrets and endangering the wellbeing of everyone around her. Sharing him seems easy enough until the unimaginable happens and an incurable STI taints their lives. To add insult to injury, Adian stays with the source of the problem who goes to drastic and desperate extremes to have him to herself Unfortunately Adian heeds Alyssa's warnings too late, nearly costing him his life and the lives of the people he loves. Tainted Love is a 120,811 word, New Adult/Women's Fiction novel exploring the consequences of smoothing over a tumultuous relationship, taking the reader to a dark place as the characters battle real life issues of self-worth, open relationships, domestic violence and incurable STIs.