Vertigo

"Their love was like vertigo, a dizzying madness of obsession and destruction."

Grace Bennett is not afraid of the dark ... because she lives in it. She is drowning in an ocean of pain and fluent in the language of her own suffering. She cuts her sadness with a sharp edge and dulls her feelings with pills and alcohol. She survives... until she can't anymore.

On her first day of her last year of law school, Grace is assaulted. She is shattered and broken and utterly destroyed ... but she is not alone. Her constitutional law professor, Catherine Blanchett, keeps Grace from falling off the edge.

Catherine is terrifyingly brilliant-known for being cold, strict, and incredibly distant-yet she is different for Grace ... softer.

Over time, they fall into an unhealthy pattern, a pattern that feels deceptively close to love. Grace's love burns with the intensity of a thousand suns, and Catherine melts under its unrelenting heat. Earth-shattering, catastrophic-addiction disguised as devotion-are the only ways to describe the connection between Catherine and Grace. A beautiful disaster laced with a shred of hope, for maybe they will make it out of this inferno alive.