Straight Girl Summer: A Steamy Small Town Sapphic Romance

Maisie Calder had a ten-year relationship, a rising career, and a life that looked perfect on paper. The problem? She couldn't breathe inside it. After walking away from everything she thought she was supposed to want, Maisie retreats to a beach house in the coastal town of Harbor Cove to reset. She expects quiet isolation, but instead, she meets Nic Varela.Nic is intimidating, fiercely competent, and commands the kitchen of a local Mediterranean restaurant with the same effortless authority she uses to fix the beach house plumbing. She also has strict rules: she refuses to be an experiment, and she will never again be kept a secret.But the magnetic pull between them is impossible to ignore. What starts as shared morning coffees and storm-soaked kisses quickly explodes into a passionate bisexual awakening. Nic shows Maisie exactly what she has been missing her entire life. However, as the summer fades and the pressures of Maisie's city career pull her back, their private bubble threatens to burst.Maisie must decide if she has the courage to step out of the shadows and claim what she wants in full daylight, or if she will let fear cost her the woman who finally made her feel alive.