Wet Paint
A Sapphic Artist Romance
by Isla Wilde
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Pairing: FF
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Ice Queen, Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Body Painting, Stone Butch/Femme
She built walls so high she forgot what she was protecting. Now an artist is asking her to strip them away—one brushstroke at a time.
Victoria Sterling is the ice queen of Manhattan’s corporate world. Flawless suits. Perfect control. A corner office she clawed her way into by never letting anyone see her sweat—or anything else. When a high-profile art project lands on her desk, she expects spreadsheets and schedules.
She doesn’t expect Jax Miller.
Jax is Brooklyn’s most reclusive artist—tattooed, talented, and famously impossible to work with. Her last collection made her a star. Her last relationship made her swear off vulnerability forever. She doesn’t do clients. She doesn’t do feelings. And she definitely doesn’t do uptight corporate fixers who look at her like she’s a problem to be solved.
But Victoria isn’t just a client. She’s the canvas.
For Jax’s comeback collection, she needs a model willing to bare everything—body and soul. Victoria agrees because her career demands it. What she doesn’t expect is the way Jax’s hands feel on her skin. The way being seen—really seen—starts to crack open everything she’s spent years locking away.
As the paintings take shape, so does something neither of them planned. But Victoria has a promotion on the line and a past she’s running from. And Jax has been burned before by someone who used her art—and her heart—for their own gain.
When the gallery opening arrives, they’ll have to decide: Is this just another performance? Or is it finally time to let the paint dry on something real?
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Ice queen meets stone butch
✓ Body painting as foreplay
✓ “Let me see all of you” emotional intimacy
✓ Grumpy artist / sunshine-in-disguise heroine
✓ Explicit sapphic heat with emotional depth
✓ Found family and creative partnership
✓ Guaranteed HEA with epilogue
⚠️ Content Warning
This book contains explicit FF sexual content including praise kink, body worship, orgasm control, light power exchange dynamics, and emotional vulnerability during intimacy. Themes include workplace pressure, family estrangement, past relationship trauma (betrayal), and healing from emotional walls. Both heroines reclaim their autonomy and find their HEA.
Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.
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Chapter One: The Assignment
The painting was trying to kill her.
Victoria Sterling stood in the center of AXIS Gallery, her Louboutins planted on concrete floors that cost more per square foot than most Manhattan apartments, and stared at the canvas that had just become her problem.
Ruin, it was called. Seven feet of violent color—reds that screamed, blacks that swallowed, a single slash of white that looked like a wound. The artist had abandoned it mid-stroke three months ago, walked out of her own exhibition, and hadn’t produced a single piece since.
Victoria’s job was to fix that.
“She’s impossible,” Marina Chen said, appearing at Victoria’s elbow with the particular exhaustion of someone who’d been managing artists for two decades. The gallery owner was immaculate as always—silver hair swept into a chignon, black Chanel suit, expression carefully neutral. “I’ve tried everything. Incentives. Deadlines. Threats. She just… stopped.”
“Artists don’t stop.” Victoria kept her eyes on the painting. “They block. There’s a difference.”
“The difference doesn’t matter if she doesn’t deliver by October. The Whitmore Foundation is expecting a twelve-piece collection for their annual gala. If Jax Miller doesn’t produce—”
“She’ll produce.”
Marina’s laugh was dry as gallery wine. “You haven’t met her.”
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One year after the epilogue. A collector wants to commission a private piece—and this time, Jax paints Victoria in real time, on their bed, with an audience of one. Features possessive worship, sensation play with paint, and the kind of intimacy that leaves marks. This scene didn’t make it into the book.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this book part of a series?
Wet Paint is a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA. It features a satisfying ending with an epilogue showing Victoria and Jax’s life together six months later. No cliffhangers!
How spicy is this book?
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — This is a 5/5 heat level book with 7 explicit scenes throughout. Features include body painting as foreplay, praise kink, orgasm control, emotional vulnerability, and a stone butch character who finally learns to receive. All scenes feature enthusiastic consent and emotional intimacy.
Is there a happily ever after?
Absolutely! Victoria and Jax get their HEA with a beautiful epilogue. Victoria starts her own art consulting business. Jax creates a new collection celebrating their love. They build a life together in their renovated Brooklyn loft. No cheating, no cliffhangers, just two women who learn to let their walls down.
What does “stone butch” mean?
Stone butch is a term in the sapphic community for someone who prefers to give rather than receive during intimacy, often due to dysphoria, trauma, or simply personal preference. In this book, Jax’s stone identity is treated with care and respect, and her journey toward allowing vulnerability is handled with emotional depth. The book addresses this dynamic openly and shows healing without “fixing” her.
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