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About the book

She’s wanted her mother’s best friend for years. Now they’re alone in a lake house with nowhere to hide.

Wren Bennett has wanted Celia Hart for most of her adult life. Since growing up and building a career of her own, she has compared every other woman to Celia—and watched them come up short.

Celia is elegant, sharp, newly divorced, and sixteen years older than Wren. She is also Wren’s mother’s best friend: the one woman Wren promised herself she would never touch.

Then Celia buys an aging lake house after her divorce and hires Wren to restore it before summer ends. Long days of demolition turn into wine on the dock. Wine on the dock turns into stolen kisses. Once Celia stops pretending she doesn’t want Wren, neither woman is prepared for how impossible it becomes to go back.

But Wren’s mother has trusted Celia with every important part of her life. Telling the truth could cost Celia her best friend. Keeping it hidden could cost Wren the woman she has loved all along. As the house becomes a home, they have to decide whether their relationship deserves a place in the open.

Book details

Author: Aurora North
Genre: Sapphic contemporary romance
Pairing: FF; adult protagonists
Tropes: Mother’s best friend, 16-year age gap, longtime crush, forced proximity, lake-house renovation, newly divorced heroine, secret relationship, slow burn
Ending: Happily ever after

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Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit sexual content, strong language, adult age-gap dynamics, coming out, and conflict between family loyalty and romantic desire.