Beth Morrow has spent forty-two years being sensible.
She raised two children, built a twenty-one-year marriage, managed everyone’s schedules, and became very good at knowing exactly where everything belonged.
Then her divorce becomes final in eleven minutes.
Now Beth has a spreadsheet called After. Repaint the bedroom. Travel alone. Ride a bicycle again.
And Row Fourteen:
Date a woman.
Nia Hollis has no interest in being anybody’s experiment.
The confident, sharp-tongued owner of Switchback Cycles has been out for nineteen years, and she learned the hard way what happens when a questioning woman wants her in private but cannot choose her in daylight.
So when Beth walks into her bike shop with a twenty-year-old bicycle, a labeled folder, and an attraction she can barely put into words, Nia gives her one rule:
I’m a date. Never an experiment.
Three dates. No promises. Full disclosure.
It should be simple.
Instead, Beth discovers that wanting women was never the difficult question.
Wanting Nia is.
And as three dates turn into something far more dangerous, Beth will have to decide whether the carefully organized life she built still has room for the woman who makes her want to throw the spreadsheet away.
A steamy, emotional late-bloomer sapphic romance featuring bisexual awakening, mature heroines, a first relationship with a woman, high heat, praise kink, found community, and a hard-earned happily ever after.
