
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Angsty
Found Family
Friends to Lovers
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Nerdy / Geeky
Pet / Wild Animal
Pregnancy
Rich Girl / Poor Girl
Secret Crush
Slow Burn
Stalker
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Charity / Nonprofit
Small Business Owner
Geographic Location:
United States: Midwest
Setting:
Suburban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Femme
Tomboy
Trigger/Content Warning:
Rape
Stay
The Stay Series, Book 1
By Michelle Arnold
It wasn't supposed to happen like this...
Grace Walker doesn’t do relationships. She spent her childhood in and out of foster homes, she and her siblings looking after each other when their drug-addicted mother couldn’t. With such a dysfunctional family, Grace just doesn’t think she’s relationship material. She’d rather play the field and otherwise keep to herself. But then she runs into someone from her childhood: Eva Carrington, an orphaned heiress who did a brief stint in a children’s home alongside Grace. The two felt a strong connection as children, and now that they’re adults, it’s even stronger. But Grace sticks to her guns: she doesn’t do relationships, and she’s certain kind, intelligent Eva deserves better than her anyway. But then someone else from the past hurts Eva badly to get revenge on Grace for some perceived slight, and Eva ends up pregnant. When she makes the difficult decision to have the baby, Grace promises to be there for mother and child no matter what. But with this makeshift family on her hands, can Grace keep pretending she doesn’t love Eva?