A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
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A Shot in the Dark

Author: Victoria Lee

Narrator: Scott Turner Schofield, Gilli Messer

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2023


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee

“A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, She Reads, Publishers Weekly

Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of good things to come, right? They could be, as long as Ely resists self-sabotage. She’s lucky enough to hit it off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city. But the morning after their mind-blowing hookup, reality comes knocking. When Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom, Ely realizes the man she just spent the night with, the man whose name she couldn’t hear over the loud club music, is her teacher.

Everyone in the art world is obsessed with Wyatt Cole. He’s immensely talented and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him even more compelling. But behind closed doors, Wyatt’s past is a painful memory. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned by his family. Since these traumatic experiences, Wyatt has worked hard for his sobriety and his flourishing art career. He can’t risk it all for Ely, no matter how attracted to her he is or how bad he feels about insisting she drop his class in exchange for a strictly professional mentorship. Wyatt can help with her capstone photography project, but he cannot, under any circumstances, fall in love with her in the process.

Through the lens of her camera, Ely must confront the reason she left New York in the first place: the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse. Along the way, Wyatt’s walls begin to break down, and each artist fights for what’s right in front of them—a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible.

About Victoria Lee

Victoria Lee grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where she spent twelve ascetic years as a vegetarian before discovering that spicy chicken wings are, in fact, a delicacy. She’s been a state finalist competitive pianist, a hitchhiker, a pizza connoisseur, an EMT, an expat in China and Sweden, and a science doctoral student. She’s also a bit of a snob about fancy whiskey. Lee writes early in the morning and then spends the rest of the day trying to impress her border collie puppy and make her experiments work. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her partner.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke

Okay. Ookay. Ookaay. I’m trying to put into words what an insanely good book A Shot in The Dark is and what it did to me, so forgive me if this review seems to be a vomit of incoherent thoughts. Want. Need. Desire. That’s what this beautiful love story is about. A craving for addictive substances, s......more

Goodreads review by Anniek

Imagine having the range to write dystopian, dark academia, AND adult contemporary romance, all queer in different ways, and all so incredibly well written. Victoria Lee doesn't have to imagine, that's for sure, because after reading all of these books, I'm convinced they can pull off any genre. I'm......more

thank you netgalley for the arc ! ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 4/5 stars *ੈ✩‧₊˚ read if you like: ♡ there is only one bed ♡ accidental one-night stand between professor x student (but make it clumsily and cutely respectful) ♡ lgbtqia and trans rep ♡ orthodox judaism rep ♡ beautiful story of recovery from drug abuse and self-f......more

Goodreads review by jess

4.5 stars. Basically once I started this book it was impossible to put down. So hard to put down in fact that I got distracted reading outside and ended up with a weird embarrassing sunburn. This is meant to be taken as high praise. A Shot in the Dark follows Ely as she returns to NYC to pursue a sum......more


Quotes

“Victoria Lee aims straight for the heart, and pierces the center without restraint.”—Kosoko Jackson, author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist I’m So (Not) Over You

“A moving portrait of queer love, religion, recovery, art, and community.”—Mackenzi Lee, author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue