Sylvia Dancy

Searching for Atlantis Sylvia Dancy

Lilly Grisham considers herself a pragmatic realist and believes that the whole notion of romance and love was created by Hallmark to peddle their crappy cards and sappy movies. She is getting her first novel published, in which she deconstructs the establishment of love through hard-hitting cynical postmodernist prose. For an eighteen-year-old, just out of high school girl, this is the start of a promising literary career. The possibilities are endless. Enter Roger Abernathy, renowned bestseller of two romance novels, who tells Lilly that reading her story made him feel angry. The two get in a heated debate, and as the emotional and sexual tension rises between them, they end up sharing a passionate making out session in Lilly's bedroom. Then Roger disappears, leaving Lilly wondering about what he said, and about her whole stance on love. Now, in New York, studying BFA in Creative Writing and writing her second novel, Lilly, who considered herself the furthest from a romantic, starts feeling a series of previously unexplored emotions. Could it be love? She doesn't know. She hasn't heard back from Roger in months.