Genre:
Young Adult / New Adult
Themes:
Coming of Age
Coming Out
First Love
Low Angst
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Secret Crush
Self-Discovery
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Recent Graduate
Student
Geographic Location:
United States
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Carnival / Fair / Circus / Amusement Park
Lake / Cabin
Small Town / Rural
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Androgynous
Tomboy
Pride Festival
The I Heart SapphFic Pride Collection , Book 5
By Nicole Pyland
Four teenagers discover who they are and fall in love as they try to build their town's first Pride Festival.
When Ruby Simon wanted something, she usually got it and didn’t mind working hard for it. Her small town had never done anything for Pride month, and she was determined to change that. Starting with a parade would be a little much, so Ruby started planning a festival.
Chance Curtis was used to always being pulled into her best friend’s orbit. She was an ally to the community, believing that love was love and that she’d find her person one day, but she never had anyone in her life like that, so it didn’t matter anyway.
Jo Hemsworth never fit in. When Jo’s single mother decided to move to a small town toward the end of Jo’s junior year, Jo planned not to talk to anyone and just hoped to go to college one day. Never feeling like fitting in, and only in part because of being gay, Jo had no idea Chance was helping to plan a festival and would change Jo’s life.
Jaden Hugo had been the girl with two gay dads ever since they adopted her, and she’d been questioning things about herself for a while. When her dads volunteer themselves and her to work at a Pride festival in another town, Jaden is completely taken aback because there was Ruby Simon, the girl who had made it all happen.
On the cusp of their high school graduation, Ruby and Chance were about to leave this place they’d called home and wanted to leave it better than they found it. In planning this first Pride event for their community, their lives also end up changing for the better.
This book is part of the I Heart SapphFic Pride Collection, which contains eight stand-alone books from some of the top authors in sapphic fiction today. Each one promises a Pride theme and a happy ending. The collection was organized by I Heart SapphFic.