AS THE SUN COMES UP

Wake up and smell the sunrise.

When competent, capable, and drop-dead gorgeous bed & breakfast owner Cricket Sterling asks friend-of-a-friend Moriah Becker if she can crash on her couch for a night, Moriah doesn’t hesitate to say yes, even despite her secret crush on the other woman. But, when the awards ceremony Cricket is being honored at gets pushed three days, Moriah starts to panic. With her post-pandemic agoraphobia, OCD, and odd hours, she knows she’s difficult to live with, and the idea of having someone in her space for that long nearly sends her into a tailspin.

However, Cricket is considerate and accommodating, excitable and passionate, and Moriah finds herself oddly at peace—and falling deeper than ever. It feels inevitable when they crash into each other, spending one sizzling night together—and then another—and Moriah has to reconsider her own mental walls. Were they built to keep people out, or only ever to keep herself inside?

Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content, minor voyeurism, depictions of panic attacks, obsessive compulsive behavior, descriptions of intrusive thoughts (violence toward people and animals, unwanted sexual images, fire), internalized lesbophobia, mentions of self harm and scars, discussions of past parental death via car accident, and mentions of the COVID-19 pandemic and related agoraphobia.