The Lady in the Next Room: A Steamy Sapphic Regency Romance

Some desires are safer on paper. Until the woman next door starts reading.

Frances Bellamy keeps a respectable lodging house, a precarious set of accounts, and a drawer full of pages no one is meant to read. At thirty-three, the widowed novelist has become very good at managing a household—and denying herself almost everything else.

Her new lodger makes that considerably more difficult.

Arabella Wren arrives with a borrowed surname, an oversized wedding ring, and no intention of marrying the man her family has chosen. A room in Bath should give her somewhere to hide. Instead, she finds a sharp-tongued landlady with ink-stained fingers and a secret manuscript that makes it impossible to pretend their interest is merely literary.

Between their bedrooms stands a connecting door, with a bolt on either side. Over shared pages, stolen kisses, and increasingly dangerous cups of tea, both women find reasons to draw theirs back.

Then a private page reaches the wrong hands.

With Frances’s livelihood threatened and Arabella’s unwanted suitor closing in, desire becomes something neither woman can afford to dismiss. Arabella knows how to leave. Frances knows how to live without asking anyone to stay. Building a future together will require them to learn something harder.

The Lady in the Next Room is a steamy sapphic Regency romance about secret writing, inconvenient longing, and the courage to make a home with the woman you want. Expect dry wit, explicit intimacy, a memorable found family, and a deeply earned happily ever after.

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E-bog: 15. oktober 2026