They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line. They drink, and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers. Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. This seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.