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📖 Paperback Edition — Her ex’s mother. Her client. Her worst idea. Her only chance.

Jules Rivera is a tattoo artist with a growing career, a reputation for bold florals and body-reclamation work, and one hard rule: she does not date clients. When elegant recent divorcee Vivian Hartwell hires Jules for a private multi-session tattoo at her Finger Lakes lake house, Jules expects a demanding rich woman with a Pinterest board.

Vivian Hartwell is forty-nine, newly divorced, and desperate to become someone of her own making. She wants a massive, unapologetic tattoo across the body she spent twenty years dressing to look unobtrusive. She doesn’t want tasteful. She wants something that can’t be ignored.

Then Jules recognizes the photos in the foyer. Vivian is the mother of Sloane Hartwell — Jules’s college ex, the woman who broke up with her because she couldn’t be publicly out. The woman who called Jules “a phase.”

Vivian should fire Jules. Jules should walk away. Instead, Vivian says the one thing Jules has never heard from anyone in that house: “I remember you. I thought you were wonderful.”

The professional relationship becomes friendship. Friendship becomes tension. A storm floods Jules’s apartment and forces her into Vivian’s guesthouse. And when the ex arrives for a month-long stay, both women must decide whether the risk is worth ruining the image of the family — and whether Sloane has the right to define either woman’s future.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • FF Sapphic Romance by Aurora North
Tropes: Ex’s Mother • Age Gap • Tattoo Artist/Client • Forced Proximity • Secret Relationship • Bi-Awakening • Praise Kink • Slow Burn

A high-heat sapphic romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • 272 pages • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “Christening the Cottage.”

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, age-gap relationship, family conflict, depictions of divorce, and themes of identity and self-worth. Intended for readers 18+.

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