Topping from Below

Nora and Franny are sisters, but they have never been alike. Nora is polished, self-assured and thriving, while Franny was shy and fragile. After Franny's death, Nora opens her younger sister's diary and finds a hidden sadomasochistic relationship with a professor identified only as M. Determined to get justice for a sister she barely knew, Nora sets out to seduce him and draw out what he knows about the killing.

Her plan goes wrong almost at once. Nora becomes caught up in M.'s dangerous, twisted sexual pull, a passion so dark and perverse that she is prepared to gamble with her own life. She is in danger, though the threat may not come from M. It could come from someone far closer to her, someone she may fail to recognize until it is too late.

The novel is an erotic thriller that tests how far a woman will go for the truth and how well she knows the people around her. Its ending is meant to be shocking and haunting, and readers who enjoy dark, sexually explicit suspense should find it hard to put down.