Three’s a Crowd-Pleaser
Steamy Sapphic Why-Choose Romance
by Aurora North
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Tropes You’ll Love
FF Why-Choose / Three-Woman Romance | Wedding Planner x Florist x Photographer | Forced Proximity | Rival Ex-Lovers | Second Chance | Age Spread (29/38/45) | Mature Silver-Haired Heroine | Praise Kink | Photography Kink | Competitive Seduction to Coordinated Devotion | HEA Triad
Thirty-eight-year-old luxury wedding planner Ione Chase lands the contract of her career: a six-week destination wedding at a private English estate.
There are two problems.
The bride has personally selected Maeve Laurent — the severe, silver-haired floral designer Ione nearly built a life with ten years ago.
And Kit Marlowe — the irreverent Welsh photographer whose brief affair with Ione ended after Kit realized she was being treated like a beautiful distraction.
The bride insists all three women live onsite until the wedding.
Maeve and Kit despise each other instantly. Both still want Ione. Neither intends to lose gracefully.
Their competition begins with stolen kisses and separate late-night encounters. Then Maeve and Kit discover the tension between them isn’t entirely hostility.
The women agree to a temporary arrangement with one rule: no one chooses until the wedding ends.
But the arrangement becomes more real — and more dangerous — than any of them expected. When private photographs leak and all three careers come under fire, they must stop treating Ione as the prize, admit that Maeve and Kit want each other too, and decide whether a life built for three women can survive outside one impossible summer.
Content note: This book contains explicit sexual content between three women, including praise kink, light restraint, consensual photography, strap-on play, and extended trio scenes. 77,000 words. Standalone. HEA guaranteed. No one is the spare.
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The gravel drive at Harrowmere Estate was the colour of old money — pale, immaculate, and designed to make everyone who crossed it feel slightly underdressed.
Ione Chase stepped out of the hired car with her phone already buzzing, her garment bag draped over one arm, and the particular expression she’d spent fifteen years perfecting: serene competence, warm authority, the unshakeable suggestion that whatever was about to go wrong had already been anticipated and solved.
She wore champagne linen. The suit was Italian, the camisole beneath it French, the heels English, and the composure entirely self-taught.
Harrowmere was Georgian, sprawling, and magnificent. Pale stone, climbing roses, a south-facing terrace that would photograph like a film set in afternoon light.
Six weeks here. The Harrow-Ashcroft wedding. A billionaire heiress, an anxious groom, international press. This was it. The contract that would make Chase & Ceremony internationally famous.
“The floral designer arrived yesterday. The photographer checked in this morning.”
Two sentences. Two women. Ten years and four years respectively since Ione had made catastrophic romantic decisions involving each of them.
She kept her face perfectly still.
“Wonderful,” she said. “I’ll freshen up and meet with Cecily at half past.”
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