If You Stay: A Contemporary Coming of Age Sapphic Romance

At Bellmere College, Lennox Vale came for one reason: study, keep her head down, and never let another girl destroy her life again.After being outed and betrayed at her strict religious school, Lennox transfers to Bellmere on a fragile track scholarship and one final chance to rebuild herself. No distractions. No risks. No falling for someone she can't have.Then she meets Corinne Hale.Perfect daughter. Festival queen. Small-town royalty.Corinne's life looks flawless from the outside-until Lennox notices the cracks beneath the practiced smiles and polished speeches. Beneath the tiaras and expectations is a girl suffocating under the weight of everyone else's plans for her future.What begins as stolen glances and guarded conversations soon becomes something far more dangerous: understanding.As Lennox fights to outrun her past and Corinne struggles to escape the life chosen for her, the two girls are pulled into a relationship neither of them can afford-but neither can resist.Set against the backdrop of a lakeside college town filled with secrets, expectations, and quiet rebellion, If You Stay is a deeply emotional sapphic romance about identity, courage, first love, and learning when to stop running from the people who truly see you.At Bellmere College, Lennox Vale came for one reason: study, keep her head down, and never let another girl destroy her life again.After being outed and betrayed at her strict religious school, Lennox transfers to Bellmere on a fragile track scholarship and one final chance to rebuild herself. No distractions. No risks. No falling for someone she can't have.Then she meets Corinne Hale.Perfect daughter. Festival queen. Small-town royalty.Corinne's life looks flawless from the outside-until Lennox notices the cracks beneath the practiced smiles and polished speeches. Beneath the tiaras and expectations is a girl suffocating under the weight of everyone else's plans for her future.What begins as stolen glances and guarded conversations soon becomes something far more dangerous: understanding.As Lennox fights to outrun her past and Corinne struggles to escape the life chosen for her, the two girls are pulled into a relationship neither of them can afford-but neither can resist.Set against the backdrop of a lakeside college town filled with secrets, expectations, and quiet rebellion, If You Stay is a deeply emotional sapphic romance about identity, courage, first love, and learning when to stop running from the people who truly see you.

Pagina's: 300, Paperback, Lofty Dreams Pub