Home Isn't a Place

Quinn Hayes has spent most of her life trying to be the girl everyone in Millhaven, Mississippi expects her to be.A good daughter. A faithful Christian. The kind of girl who smiles through Sunday sermons, laughs when people ask if she has a boyfriend, and keeps the truth buried deep enough that no one can see it.But Quinn is tired of hiding.After a painful sermon and her mother's careless words leave her questioning everything she has been taught about God, love, and herself, Quinn escapes to New Orleans for her best friend's birthday weekend. She expects music, beignets, and a few days away from the small town that has always felt too tight around her.She does not expect Parker Landry.Confident, tattooed, and impossible to ignore, Parker is everything Quinn has never let herself want out loud. One night on Bourbon Street turns into something neither of them can quite shake, and suddenly Quinn is faced with a choice: return to the safety of silence, or risk everything for a love that feels more like peace than sin.As Quinn and Parker grow closer, Quinn must confront her fear of losing her family, her church, and the life she has always known. But with the help of her friends, her faith, and the woman who sees her without shame, Quinn begins to learn that home is not always the place you come from.Sometimes, home is the person who loves you enough to help you stop hiding.Home Isn't a Place is a heartfelt sapphic romance about faith, fear, chosen family, first love, and finding the courage to become who you were always meant to be.