In the Garden of the Fugitives

Vita has spent twenty years trying to forget Royce: a ghost from her university days, an older man who funded her scholarship and expected her friendship in payment. But when he emails her out of the blue, determined to excavate the past, she cannot resist replying. Entering into a back and forth of memory and confession, she slowly learns more about what Royce wanted from her all those years ago, and how it related to another young woman, one she never met: the beautiful, now-dead, Kitty. And in this conversation, Royce is not the only one carrying secrets. Vita too has things she needs to confess...