Soft Core A Novel

Brittany Newell

eBook - 2025

"Vivid . . . Exhilarating . . . Soft Core is pacey and rich, full of verve, drama and detail." —The New York Times Book ReviewA young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell's savage, tender Soft Core.Ruth is lost. She's living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her master's degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes Baby Blue, seductress of crypto bros, outcasts, and old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful women, fast cash, ungodly hours, and strangers' secrets, Baby's grip on reality begins... to loosen. She is sure she can handle it—until one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace.Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still loves—through the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive... more