A Beautiful Chill

Opposites may attract...but can they stay together? Íris is a refugee from an abusive youth in Iceland, further abused on the streets of Toronto - until she sees Art as an escape. With a scholarship, she drifts from depression to nightmare to Wiccan rituals to the next exhibit. There's a lot she must forget to succeed in a life she refuses to take responsibility for. Eric is settling in at Fairmont College, starting a new life after betrayal and heartbreak. Divorced and hitting forty, he has a lot to prove - to his father, his colleagues, and mostly to himself. The last thing he needs is a distraction - and there's nothing more distracting than Iris. A Beautiful Chill is a contemporary romance set in the duplicitous world of academic rules and artistic license--much in the same vein as Francine Prose's "Blue Angel" and Elizabeth Rosner's "Blue Nude"--a novel of empowerment and redemption.