Books Like Count Your Lucky Stars — 4 Sapphic Second-Chance & Roommate Romances (2026)
Alexandria Bellefleur’s Count Your Lucky Stars works because the one-night stand was never really over. Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships — until Olivia Grant, the woman she slept with once and never forgot, moves into her building and back into her orbit, and suddenly the commitment-phobe is inventing reasons to knock on a door across the hall. It’s second-chance, it’s forced proximity, it’s a friend group that already feels like home, and it’s the specific ache of wanting the person you told yourself you were over.
If that’s the exact ache you’re chasing, here are four Fractal Enigma sapphic romances built on the same collision — the woman you never got over, one roof, and zero willpower — all at inferno heat. Most are free with Kindle Unlimited, and every book page has a free first chapter.
The Bride’s Emergency Contact — Blair Lennox (The Second Chance)
This is the one for Bellefleur’s second-chance readers. Mira Solano plans flawless weddings — and she’s just been hired to plan the wedding of the woman who broke her heart. Then the bride runs, and Mira is the one she calls to help her disappear. One car, one island hideout, one bed, and a fiancé, a family, and every camera on the coast to hide from. The exes-who-never-finished tension is the whole engine here, and the caretaking turns filthy fast.
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Roommates Don’t Do That — Aurora North (The One Across the Hall)
If the part of Count Your Lucky Stars that got you was she lives right there now, start here. Lexie Ward has a carefully built single life in Brooklyn — Tuesday-night puttanesca, a spare room, firm boundaries, and a stupid weakness for straight women in crisis. Enter Jenna, newly homeless, newly single, moving into the spare room. The lease said nothing about feelings. The one bed says plenty. It’s the shared-walls slow burn done at full heat.
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I’d Hit That, Obviously — Aurora North (The One She Never Got Over)
Margot spent years pretending Olivia didn’t matter. Lucy Haines can’t even manage the pretending. She’s been in love with her best friend Kate for so long it’s become part of her anatomy — through the bad haircuts, the worse boyfriends, the midnight “come get me” calls. Then Kate starts to figure out why every man felt wrong. This is the lifelong-pining, friends-with-benefits, only-one-bed version of loving someone who was right there the whole time.
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Make Me Your Secret — Aurora North (The One Who Came Back)
For the reunion readers who want the reappearance to hurt. Five years ago Laura King left Savannah for Hollywood and left Mia Bennett behind — no explanation, no goodbye, just silence from the woman Mia used to sleep with in secret while working as her assistant. Now Laura is an A-list actress back in town for a six-week shoot, and she wants Mia in her bed and out of the frame. Second-chance, small-town return, and the closet as a genuine obstacle. It goes exactly as combustibly as it sounds.
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Where to go next
Since Count Your Lucky Stars lives in the same friend-group universe as Written in the Stars, if it’s the fake-dating opener you loved most, our Books Like Written in the Stars roundup is the companion to this one. For the tropes at the heart of these picks, dig into the best friends-to-lovers guide and the roommates-to-lovers guide. Everything above is free to read in Kindle Unlimited, and you can browse the full catalog here.
