The “Straight” Brides
Sapphic Contemporary Romance
by Aurora North
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Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience, Best Friends to Lovers, Only One Bed, Dual Bi Awakening, Forced Proximity, Praise Kink, Domesticity Kink, Touch Her and Die
She needed money. I needed a wife. We needed each other.
Lauren “Lo” Hayes has a plan for everything: her career, her debt, her Tuesday meal prep. What she doesn’t have is a spouse — and her grandmother’s trust fund requires one. Enter Cara Simms: Lo’s chaotic, tattooed, chronically broke best friend who needs $12,000 for grad school and has zero shame about a good hustle.
The deal is simple: marry, cohabitate for a year, split the money, divorce. No feelings. No complications. Definitely no falling in love.
There’s just one problem. The bed is shared. The domesticity is addictive. And every time Cara calls her “wife,” Lo’s supposedly straight heart does something deeply inconvenient.
One year. One apartment. One bed. Two women who’ve been in love since college and are the last to know.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Best friends to lovers with a marriage of convenience
✅ Dual bi/queer awakening (“wait, I’m not straight?”)
✅ Only one bed + forced proximity + domestic bliss
✅ Praise kink so potent it should be prescription-only
✅ A heroine who makes spreadsheets about her feelings
✅ A love interest who waited nine years and never stopped hoping
✅ Scorching heat (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, depictions of anxiety and panic attacks, financial stress, parental abandonment themes, and two women discovering they were never straight. Intended for readers 18+.
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Lo and Cara close on their first house. The furniture arrives tomorrow. Tonight, it’s just them, a mattress on the floor, a bottle of champagne, and a blue front door. Seven rooms. Zero neighbors within earshot. The christening begins — kitchen counter sex, silk scarves, the vibrator on the workbench, and the filthiest, most joyful chapter in the series.
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