Cake Time

**Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Award.**

**A new Novel-in-Stories that *New York Times* bestselling author Jillian Lauren calls -a delicious indulgence.-**

Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, *Cake Time*'s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In -How Not to Have an Abortion, - the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In -Easy Target, - the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in -Glow, - she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover's secret daughter. Ultimately, this unflinching novel-in-stories grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self.