
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Coming Out
Dual Timeline (Past and Present)
Family Relationships
Femme / Femme
First Love
Forced Proximity / Stranded Together
Found Family
Holiday
Love Triangle
Low Angst
Opposites Attract
Return to Hometown
Second Chance
Slow Burn
Vacation / Travel
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Adventurer / Explorer / World Traveler
Photographer
Teacher / Professor
Geographic Location:
Australia / New Zealand
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Boat / Cruise Ship
Hospital / Medical / Treatment Facility
Hotel / Inn
Park / Zoo / Garden
Party
Restaurant / Diner / Food Truck
Seaside / Beach
Shop / Gallery
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Trigger/Content Warning:
historical suicide
Within My Reach
A Sapphic Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion
By Amy Blythe
The one that got away just got back.
Camping on a futon and babysitting her nephews is not the summer vacation Anna Elliot had in mind, but then Frida Wentworth rolls back into town – home from conquering the world, one stunning photograph at a time.
Anna has never entirely forgiven herself for letting Frida go. And Frida, it would seem, hasn’t forgiven her either. No one knows about their past, thank goodness. But before Anna’s very eyes, two of her friends fall under Frida’s spell.
Set in Auckland, New Zealand, over the holidays, this Sapphic retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion takes the OG second-chance romance for an antipodean spin, with a splash of forced-proximity and a pinch of love-triangle.
Trigger warning for historical suicide (in the backstory).