Her Beautiful Wreckage

An electrifying novel of art, desire, and obsession

Petra Wolff hasn't satisfied anyone in years.

Not the critics. Not the collectors. And certainly not herself.

At fifty-two, the sculptor who once defined a generation of feminist art is facing her first major retrospective with nothing new to show. Her studio is silent. Her vision is gone. And the art world is already writing her obituary.

Then Jonah Creel walks through her door.

Twenty-seven. A welder from Queens with paint under his nails and hunger in his eyes. He's looking for work. She's looking for a way to feel something again.

What starts as a professional arrangement—fifty dollars an hour, strictly business—becomes something neither of them expected. He sees past the legend to the woman underneath. She sees raw talent that terrifies her. And in the welding sparks and bronze dust of her Tribeca studio, the line between muse and master begins to blur.

But Petra has enemies. And when sabotage threatens to destroy everything she's rebuilt, she'll have to decide what matters more: her legacy or the man who made her believe in her art again.

A novel of ambition, desire, and the kind of obsession that destroys as beautifully as it creates.

For readers who love age-gap romance with literary heat—Sierra Simone meets the New York art world.