Go gay. Go sad. Go dark.

A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancyeven if it means appropriating a young gay mans tragic story.

Mallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writers block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, shell do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strikeand fast.

Enter Leo. Hes a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. Hes vulnerable. Hes enigmatic. Hes exactly what Mallory has been looking for.

Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leos story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, its her storyshes the one who wrote it, after all.

But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story.

A razor-sharp satirical thriller, Fruit Fly will appeal to fans of R. F. Kuangs Yellowface and Yomi Adegokes The List.

Josh Silver is the New York Times bestselling author of Fruit Fly. Previously, he trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and went on to perform in the West End and on Broadway. He subsequently became a mental health nurse, where he worked with teenagers. His other writing includes the young adult novels Happy Head, Dead Happy, and Erase Me.

• Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
• Publish Date: August 04, 2026
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9798892426374
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds
• BISAC: Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay
  Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
  Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological