Explore a Queer Happily Ever After
Every Step She Takes
A swoon-worthy sapphic romance following two women who are thrown together on a European adventure, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me.
Explore a Queer Happily Ever After
Every Step She Takes
Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all.
After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The problem: the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not.
Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together.
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Content Warmings
The number one thing readers have asked me about this book is: will it make me cry? And the answer is... no?? I truly don't think it will. Of all my books, I think this one is the closest to an actual romcom. That said, there are a few things to note before diving in.
- The book contains the off-page death of a parent (heavily referenced throughout the story)
- Allusions to childhood trauma surrounding an emotionally volatile parent
- Scenes of heavy drinking, smoking, and explicit sex
-Parental rejection around coming out, brief references to homophobia and transphobia
- Brief discussions around internalized fatphobia
- References to caretaking for a parent with mental illness
- Numerous references to food/eating