New Sapphic Wedding Romcoms — The Runaway Bride, the Invented Girlfriend & the Hired Date (2026)
Nothing cracks a carefully managed woman open like a wedding — and sapphic romance knows it. The bride who finally says no at the bridal-shop mirror. The spreadsheet queen who blurts out a girlfriend she doesn’t have. The one who hires a professional to survive her ex’s big day. In each of these the plan goes sideways on page one, and the woman standing next to her — the best friend, the almost-kiss, the hired date — turns out to be the thing she should have been choosing all along. Here are three sapphic wedding romcoms, led by a brand-new drop, all at inferno heat, most free with Kindle Unlimited, with a free first chapter on every book page.
Honeymooning With My Best Friend — Riley Kendra · Just Dropped
Tessa Mercer said yes to everything — the ring, the venue, the move to Denver, a whole life someone else planned — until three weeks out, on a bridal-shop platform, she finally said no. Now she has a non-refundable honeymoon in Mexico and nobody to take but Morgan, her deadpan best friend who builds museum exhibits and has quietly wanted her for two years. Then the front desk checks them in as Mrs. and Mrs. Mercer, and correcting it would cost the private cabana and every prepaid perk. So they play along: fourteen-dollar gift-shop rings, kissing towel swans, one king bed and a five-foot chaise that Morgan, at five-eleven, lasts exactly one night on. The kiss for the resort photographer is fake. The sound Tessa makes in the outdoor shower isn’t. A best-friends-to-lovers, fake-married, only-one-bed vacation romance with two years of pining finally said out loud. Read the free first chapter →
The Plus-One Problem — Riley Kendra
Tamsin Halloran has one goal for her cousin’s Napa wedding: don’t be the family tragedy. Her boyfriend of seven years just got engaged to someone else, the whole family saw it online, and when her mother gently asks whether she’ll be bringing anyone, the most careful woman in Boston does the least careful thing of her life — she says she has a girlfriend, and then she says a real name. Romy Kostas. The bride’s best friend. The photographer she almost kissed on a Providence rooftop ten years ago, right before she ran for a train that didn’t exist. Romy agrees to play along for one weekend; Tamsin writes seven rules in a shared doc. Then the bride merges their rooms into the honeymoon suite — one bed, one copper tub, one grandmother ordering them to kiss — and Rule Four lasts six hours. Fake dating, a bisexual awakening, and a second chance ten years in the making. Read the free first chapter →
Save the Date, Steal the Girl — Riley Kendra
Rachel Porter can handle her ex-boyfriend’s wedding. What she can’t handle is one more person asking if she can handle it — so when the groom kindly offers to move her to a quieter table, she tells him she’s bringing her girlfriend. She doesn’t have one. So she hires one. Kim Ellis is a professional event companion: charming, discreet, and very clear about her three rules. She’ll hold Rachel’s hand, handle the nosy aunts, and make four days at a Newport estate look like love. Nothing else is for sale — which is a problem, because Rachel has never kissed a woman and can’t stop thinking about this one, and Kim has never once wanted a client. A hired-date, transactional-to-real bi-awakening romcom with one cottage, a door that won’t latch, and an ex who’s maddeningly nice about all of it. Read the free first chapter →
Where to start
Go to Honeymooning With My Best Friend for the best-friend slow burn and a sun-soaked fake marriage; The Plus-One Problem for the spreadsheet heroine, the ten-year rooftop regret, and the seven-rule protocol that doesn’t survive the merged room; and Save the Date, Steal the Girl for the sharpest premise — a hired companion with a ledger and a watch that chimes on the hour, and a teacher who’s never once said what she wants out loud. All three are standalones by Riley Kendra.
If the fake-relationship collision is the part you’re here for, the books-like-She-Drives-Me-Crazy roundup has more sapphic enemies-to-fake-dating reads. Browse everything in the full catalog — most titles are free with Kindle Unlimited.
Get the bonus chapters first
Every one of these has an exclusive bonus chapter too hot for the retailers — the night of the proposal through an outdoor-shower screen, a return to the Harvest Suite with no pillow wall, a lake cabin with one thin pine wall and a deal about staying quiet. Join the reader list for new-release alerts, bonus content, and reader-only giveaways.
