Lay Your Sleeping Head Macmillan Distribution A balm for the soul

A balm for the soul for readers who love Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series

wandering the towns streets

highlights the complex tapestry of African women's sexuality

They also mourn those lost in the pandemic and the care crisis so many of us still face

Lay Your Sleeping Head Macmillan Distribution A balm for the soulSet in the summer of 1981, in a university town 30 miles south of San Francisco. Henry Rios, a gifted and humane lawyer driven to drink to by personal and professional demons, meets Hugh Paris, a charming junkie struggling to stay clean. Hugh tells Rios an improbable tale of long ago murders in his wealthy family. Rios disbelieves him but the erotic spark between the two men ignites an obsessive affair that ends only when Hugh is discovered with a