A Better Version of Honest: Spain, Maine Novel

Nadia Sloan built a career on beautiful spaces, polished stories, and the kind of public persona people thought they knew. Then her carefully managed life collapsed in full view of the internet. Arriving in Spain, Maine, Nadia only wants quiet, distance, and one simple repair. Instead, a broken cabinet pull sends her to Wren Foster, a salvage dealer and builder who has no interest in performance, reputation, or anything that only looks strong on the surface. Wren knows what holds. She knows what fails. And she has little patience for pretty things that cannot bear weight. As Nadia is pulled into Spain's warm, nosy, unexpectedly healing community, she begins to question whether she really wants her old life back-or whether the version of herself she lost might not have been the truest one after all. But when public attention finds her again, Nadia must decide whether to chase the story everyone expects or build something quieter, riskier, and far more honest with the woman who sees past the performance. A Better Version of Honest is a warm, emotionally layered sapphic small-town romance about public reinvention, quiet repair, chosen community, and the kind of love that cares less about how things look than whether they hold.