GxG WXW Soft and Strong is a tender, slow-burn sapphic love story about learning to be seen-and loved-as you are. Maya has mastered invisibility. She hides in quiet corners, behind thick books and thicker walls of self-doubt, convinced that softness makes her vulnerable. That fat girls like her don't get noticed-especially not by girls like Ivy Torres. Ivy is a track star. Confident, radiant, always in motion. But beneath the surface is a girl who's tired of running-from expectations, from fear, from her own heart. When a stumble on the sidewalk leads to an unexpected moment between them, their worlds shift.

[Wattpad's Summer Reading Checklist 2022 Pick] "'Hella heavy' is your response to seeing me with a literal fish tail?" "Sorry. Should ... should it be something else? Wait, does this mean that you can't eat sushi?" * * * * * When Alyssa shows up in Hulhazy Front a week after wiping the memory of her partner, she's terrified of ruining everything again. Her brother and dad are convinced she'll be okay as soon as she's able to "move on", which makes no sense to her, because they sound like the exact same thing. Alyssa doesn't care about moving on--she just cares about hiding the fact that she's a mermaid from this new small town, and especially her new coworker, Elliot. Elliot has spent the past year trying to figure out how to be out. It seems that every time she finds some kind of balance, something has to happen. Her parents say something homophobic before she's about to confess her "big secret," or her old friends from the swim team make some jab about all the things they're convinced Elliot did sophomore year. She's planning on her summer consisting of working at the public pool, hiding her sexuality, and third-wheeling it up with her best friends, Neema and Duncan. Until, of course, she meets Alyssa. *cover created using graphics from freepik*