Slower Than a Heartbeat

Lily is looking for a hero for her new novel When she finds Nino a romantic street artist by day and a peeping tom by night she decides to seduce him and turn him into the subject of her book without him knowing it She meets Ninos close friend Freddy an ultra orthodox Jew and a gay drag artist who is Ninos muse in the same way that Nino is Lilys Lily sees Freddy as a threat to her manipulation of Nino and realizes she must make Nino give him up However the tables begin to turn on Lily when Nino uncovers her true motives and when she finds herself falling for Nino this time for real