The Art Of Wanting Her

By Sasha Simpson

A slow-burn, high-heat sapphic romance about secrets, class, and the terrifying act of letting someone in.

Verity Thornebridge hasn’t let anyone touch her in eleven years.

Alone in a crumbling Cotswolds manor with a seven-figure tax bill and a lurcher called Boswell, she’s spent the years since her brother’s death holding everything together through sheer force of will, dry wit, and a refusal to fall apart in front of anyone.

Then she hires Mickey Grainger.

Mickey is sharp, warm, disarmingly confident, and she reads people the way she reads paintings, with an eye for what’s hidden beneath the surface. She’s been brought in to authenticate the family art collection. Six weeks. Professional distance. Simple.

Except Mickey has a secret that could destroy everything between them. And Verity has walls that weren’t built to come down. What starts as a professional arrangement becomes shared dinners, loaded silences, and one devastating kiss in the library that neither of them can take back.

With a powerful family circling Thornebridge like predators, secrets that could destroy them both, and a connection neither woman can control, Verity and Mickey must decide what’s worth more: the truth, or each other.