In preparation for marriage, sixteen-year-old Maddie is packed off to finishing school. She anticipates spending a dreary summer refining her knowledge of the great literary classics, improving her needlepoint, and learning how to paint. Instead, she receives an altogether more erotic education at the hands of Miss Camille, the school's beautiful and enigmatic maîtress.
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The Ruin of Us is a 22,000 word, Victorian era lesbian novella.