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After a year of living in a prissy suburb, Maria Chaudhry is back downtown. Back to what she never wanted to leave. But she can’t really enjoy it since neither the living nor the dead will leave her in peace.
JC’s death still keeps her up at night and Ehmet’s sudden ambivalence isn’t helping. Maybe she had read his signals wrong and Ehmet was never in love with her like she thought. Or maybe his love is tangled with secrets too dark to speak aloud, secrets about JC’s death and the unpredictable beast in Ehmet’s blood.
As their efforts to reconcile keep failing, a growing spiral of deceit threatens to tear Maria and Ehmet apart forever, but the beast within Ehmet can do a lot worse than that.

“And see, this is the problem. This is what’s making it so hard to distance myself from Ehmet Obad. He isn’t just any friend: He’s my ‘jigri dost’, a part of me, something irreplaceable, something I know what it’s like to lose.”