Marked

<p>Melanie is married unemployed and drifting. Once a feminist lit publicist now just another woman in a museum with a résumé and no momentum.</p><p>Then Malik spots her: calm composed watching.</p><p>What begins as a DM becomes something slower stranger and harder to name. As Melanie steps into Malik's orbit and begins to return again and again something in her loosens.</p><p>Power shame and unexpected desire. It starts to feel less like a breakdown and more like an arrangement. Maybe even a connection.</p><p><em>Marked</em> is a literary novel about race longing and the quiet undoing of a woman who thought she knew herself. Erotic intimate and quietly devastating.</p>