HER NEW ROOMMATE

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She built walls to keep the cold out. She was the warmth that got in.

Victoria “Vic” Sterling controls everything. Her schedule. Her grades. Her future. Her emotions. A neuroscience major on the pre-med fast track, she’s spent five years following her parents’ plan with surgical precision — ever since she watched them erase her brother Oliver for being honest about who he loved. She has cold hands, a 4.0 GPA, and a sexuality crisis she’s been filing under “stress responses” since she was sixteen.

Riley Thorne paints without apology. Loud, warm, and unapologetically bisexual, she fills every room she enters with color and chaos and the kind of beauty that makes Vic’s chest ache. She’s also been someone’s secret before — her ex kept her hidden for a year — and she swore she’d never stand in that shadow again.

When a housing crisis forces them into a basement apartment with one bed, a broken radiator, and three hundred square feet of inescapable proximity, Vic’s carefully constructed walls begin to crack. Riley’s paint is on everything. Her laugh fills the room. Her body is three feet away every night, warm and bare and impossible to ignore.

The first touch is an accident. The second is a choice. The third is a detonation — and what follows is a secret arrangement that’s hotter than anything Vic has ever experienced and more terrifying than anything she’s ever felt. Because inside the apartment, they’re everything. Outside, they’re strangers. And Riley has made one thing clear: she will not be anyone’s secret again.

When Vic’s parents visit and she chooses silence over courage, Riley walks out with a packed bag and a key on the counter. And Vic — standing in the empty apartment that still smells like vanilla — has to decide who she is: the woman her parents built, or the woman Riley helped her become.

HER NEW ROOMMATE is an 87,000-word high-heat sapphic romance featuring a possessive ice queen who doesn’t realize she’s gay until she wants to pin her roommate to the mattress, a bratty artist who paints their love story on an eight-foot canvas, five escalating explicit scenes, a gallery-show grand gesture that destroys a closet door forever, a brother who calls from three thousand miles away to say “don’t make my mistake,” Post-it notes used as love letters, an oxytocin molecule traced on sleeping skin, and a happily-ever-after that required burning every plan to the ground.

I spent my whole life building walls to keep the cold out. Turns out, all I needed was to let the warmth in.

🔥 Exclusive Bonus Content

Want more Vic and Riley? Get “The Snap: Riley’s Side” — an exclusive bonus chapter retelling the explosive first night from Riley’s POV. The mattress. The dark. The moment the Ice Queen finally broke. 5,000+ words of dual-perspective heat that’s too steamy for Amazon — because some awakenings need to be experienced from both sides.