The Architecture of Want

She wrote her dissertation about forbidden desire. She didn't expect to be living the argument.Nadia Voss is three years into her PhD at Ashworth University, building a thesis on the iconography of forbidden gazes in Flemish Renaissance painting. The research is meticulous. The argument is original. And her supervisor, Dr. Julian Crane, is the most exacting scholar she has ever encountered.He is also the reason the chapter she sent without rereading says more than she intended.Julian reads both levels of her work. He transfers the supervision through the correct channels, for the correct reasons. And then he waits.What Nadia doesn't know is that he has been waiting since October.As the dissertation moves toward its defense, the grammar of their situation shifts - from forbidden to possible, from managed to honest, from the careful distance of an institutional relationship to the question of what exists on the other side.The Architecture of Want is an intellectually charged slow-burn romance for readers who want their love stories to think as hard as they feel.

She wrote her dissertation about forbidden desire. She didn't expect to be living the argument.Nadia Voss is three years into her PhD at Ashworth University, building a thesis on the iconography of forbidden gazes in Flemish Renaissance painting. The research is meticulous. The argument is original. And her supervisor, Dr. Julian Crane, is the most exacting scholar she has ever encountered.He is also the reason the chapter she sent without rereading says more than she intended.Julian reads both levels of her work. He transfers the supervision through the correct channels, for the correct reasons. And then he waits.What Nadia doesn't know is that he has been waiting since October.As the dissertation moves toward its defense, the grammar of their situation shifts - from forbidden to possible, from managed to honest, from the careful distance of an institutional relationship to the question of what exists on the other side.The Architecture of Want is an intellectually charged slow-burn romance for readers who want their love stories to think as hard as they feel.