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It starts with the breaking of the waves and summer hits in an open air disco along the harbor. Girls meets girl. Or boy? A ménage a trois for two people, plus a persona who elbows her way in. The star photographer Nina, who is in love with lust, the DJ Steve, who has a dark secret and falls for Nina, the black-haired diva Cindy - become entangled in a relationship.

Karin Rick, master of erotic tension, confronts us again in this new novel with the main themes of her writing. Sexual identity - as well as desire - is something fluid, that cannot be solidified into fixed categories, definitions or boundaries, and only stays thrilling in constant flux.

An island, two people, a summer love story. In this classic set up, the author develops a multi-layered story with lots of twists and turns. And the location is not mundane, the island of Calera (volcanic and Atlantic), a place to escape, that has a permanent hold on people, drawing them in and then mercilessly casting them out. A ravishing and fast-paced tale that asks profound questions in a light way: does every love need to be forever? What´s more important appearing to be or really being who you are? What moods of desire can withstand transience?

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Rick, Karin
The Viennese author Karin Rick has been writing for years about love, sex and power. Her novels combine cross-over sexual permissiveness with deep feelings. She majored in Art History and Translation at the University of Vienna and Paris, studied and taught in France, Belgium and Spain. She has organized symposiums and translated books, among them Helene Cixous and Alain Robbe-Grillet from French into German.

"What´s enthralling in Ricks novels is the unmasking of individuals - as beings that pay tribute to their emotions and lust. A yes to horny, a no for voyeurs." (Buchkultur)

"A wave of yearning, pleasure and jealousy. An unusual book, where irony and humor also have a place." (Brigitte")

"No one can describe clandestine and heavy sex scenes as beautifully as the Viennese author Karin Rick." (Manuela Kay. L-Mag)

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