The Last Lesson: A Novel in Fragments

Monique is everything to him: a ballroom partner, a cooking buddy, a laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts best friend, a safe person to sit with after high school and talk to about everything, except one topic. He's crazy about her. And she has no idea. He won't ever tell her, either, if he has a choice. He can't. It would never be the same again, and he can't stand to lose her that way. They're too close. She means too much to him. Secrets can only keep so long. But Monique has secrets of her own, secrets that may cost them their friendship and worse, unless he can find the strength to set aside his feelings - or perhaps, embrace them.