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It’s 1991 in New York City. 17-year-old ballet prodigy Ash Lynx thought that agreeing to star in a charity show for AIDS awareness would be a break from the hard pace of his career. But as the “Swan Queen” in an all-male version of “Swan Lake,” Ash is uncharacteristically detached from his character. Odette is a tragedy; cursed to be swan, torn away from her one true love, killing herself to be with him in death.
Ash can’t relate to the self-victimization.
Things only get more complicated when 19-year-old Japanese photographer, Eiji Okumura, comes onto the scene, poking into Ash’s life with an insatiable curiosity, trying to help Ash reconnect with his muse.
As Ash feels the pressure from his head manager and guardian, the impossible to please Dino Golzine, and is running out of places to hide from the darker, uglier parts of his past and present, Ash Lynx has to start asking the same questions as Eiji.
Does he want to live like he’s in a ballet or dance to the beat of his own drum?~ ~ ~
Or, in which the author uses Swan Lake as an overt metaphor for Ash and Eiji's tragic love (with a fix-it ending)