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In a town too small for secrets, Ameline Fontaine has mastered the art of pretending.
At twenty-three, she's the girl everyone knows, half French, wholly magnetic, the center of every party and the last to remember how she got home. No one asks too many questions, and she likes it that way. Because if they did, they might notice the way she looks at women instead of men. They might see how carefully she hides behind her laughter.
Then one Friday night, Lara Brooks walks into the same club.
Lara's younger, steadier, impossible to impress. The quiet kind of rich; the kind who doesn't need attention to have it. She's Noah Brooks's little sister, the one Ameline has somehow never met, until the night Ameline stumbles out of the club and finds Lara holding her hair back and whispering that it's going to be okay.
It should end there. It doesn't.
Because now, in every crowded room, Ameline can feel her looking.
And in every heartbeat, Lara wonders what it means that she can't stop.
A slow-burn sapphic story about the small-town nights that blur into morning, about wanting someone you shouldn't notice, and about the quiet, dangerous way two worlds begin to fall together.