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📖 Paperback Edition — She married one of them. She hired the other. Nobody planned on the third key.

Mara Vale checks every latch twice. Twelve years with Celia, nine of them married, fourteen months renovating Alder House, a lakeside inn on the edge of a small town, and a contingency budget she knows to the dollar. She hires a furniture conservator for three weeks. Fixed scope. Priority list attached.

Wren Calder reads the list, tells her it’s in the wrong order, and refuses to veneer the burn scar on the inn’s 1890s sideboard. I don’t hide damage, Ms. Vale. I make it sound. Then she pries a board off the east wing, the room Celia dreams of turning into a teaching studio, and finds eleven feet of rot.

Celia Hart is the warm one. The one guests thank. The one who has never once been chased. Twelve years ago she and Mara made a pact on a Provincetown porch: never a guest, and never without telling each other first. So Celia tells her wife, in their bed, that the furniture woman is extremely hot.

Wren has terms of her own. She won’t be a secret. She won’t be anybody’s matching chair. If either of them wants her, they ask her themselves, separately, and nobody decides anything about her in a kitchen she isn’t standing in.

A truck at a lake turnout. A sideboard and the word ask. A nor’easter that snows all three of them into a candlelit library with one leather armchair and a woman in it, watching. And a number Mara can’t bring herself to say out loud, sitting in a spreadsheet on the one line in the plan that could move.

Wren has been decided about before, kindly, by people who loved her. Mara has never once let anyone take the wheel. And the only way three people get to keep each other is if all three of them are in the room.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • FFF Sapphic Polyamorous Romance by Isla Wilde

Tropes: Polyamory (FFF Triad) • Married Couple • Enemies to Lovers • Grumpy/Sunshine • Renovation Romance • Innkeeper • Small Town • Snowed In • Voyeurism • Control/Surrender • Light Bondage • Strap-On • Competence Kink • Closed Triad • No Cheating • HEA

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter. The ebook edition comes free with your paperback, emailed right after checkout.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains extremely explicit sexual content (graphic FF and FFF scenes throughout, including oral, fingering, tribbing, toys including a wand vibrator and a strap-on, squirting, light bondage with a silk scarf, edging and orgasm control, voyeurism and mutual masturbation, and threesomes), strong language, and alcohol. Also includes financial stress, references to childhood poverty and an injured parent, the end of a past polyamorous relationship, and a lie of omission between partners with real fallout and repair. No cheating: every new relationship is disclosed and agreed to. Intended for readers 18+.

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