Watermarks on the Wall: A Slow Burn Sapphic Romance
By Sage Hayes
Each book in this series features a different couple and a complete happily ever after.
Marisol Vega has survived everything New Orleans has thrown at her — storms, supply shortages, fourteen years of holding her family together one crisis at a time. She can read a building's structural failures from twenty feet. She cannot, apparently, read her own.
When preservation architect Wren Caldwell arrives on the job site to argue about original tile and inconvenient deadlines, Marisol is ...
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Each book in this series features a different couple and a complete happily ever after.
Marisol Vega has survived everything New Orleans has thrown at her — storms, supply shortages, fourteen years of holding her family together one crisis at a time. She can read a building's structural failures from twenty feet. She cannot, apparently, read her own.
When preservation architect Wren Caldwell arrives on the job site to argue about original tile and inconvenient deadlines, Marisol is not charmed. She is too busy, too tired, and too careful for whatever slow burn this is turning into. But Wren has a particular gift — she sees exactly what in a damaged structure is worth saving, and she cannot seem to stop applying that skill to Marisol.
The clinic restoration traps them in forced proximity for weeks: late-night blueprint sessions, a hidden rot pocket that threatens the foundation, an inspection that could end everything they've worked for. Somewhere in the middle of all that controlled chaos, the line between professional and personal stops holding. Wren keeps showing up. Keeps looking. Keeps refusing to look away when Marisol is exhausted and braced and trying so hard to be fine.
The age gap between them is just one item on Marisol's long list of reasons this is a terrible idea. The real reason is simpler and more terrifying: she has spent so long being the person who holds everything together that she has never learned how to be held.
She's about to find out what she's been missing.
A slow burn sapphic romance set in post-storm New Orleans, featuring two deeply capable women, a 1920s building with secrets, and the radical act of letting someone see you when you're tired.
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