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If You Are Reading This: Letters from the Edge of Almost
A sapphic love story told through letters, If You Are Reading This is an epistolary LGBTQ literary novel that captures the ache of almost-love, and the quiet resilience of two women navigating impossible desire.
What if the greatest love of your life was never yours to keep?
Lucía was never supposed to fall for Erin. But one glance turned into a spark, a spark into a tether—and what followed was everything unspoken, everything undone.
Told through haunting letters and poetic chapters, If You Are Reading This is a deeply intimate portrait of longing, restraint, grief, and impossible love.
It’s the story of two women—both married—caught between what they feel and what the world says they’re allowed to want.
Valentina Saenz weaves memory, fiction, and raw emotional truth into a heartbreakingly honest exploration of what it means to almost touch the life you could have lived.
This isn’t a love story. It’s a survival story—with love in the margins.
Perfect for readers who loved In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, or the lyrical honesty of Ocean Vuong.
If you’ve ever loved quietly…
If you’ve ever walked away before the world caught you…
This book was written for you.
What if the greatest love of your life was never yours to keep?
Lucía was never supposed to fall for Erin. But one glance turned into a spark, a spark into a tether—and what followed was everything unspoken, everything undone.
Told through haunting letters and poetic chapters, If You Are Reading This is a deeply intimate portrait of longing, restraint, grief, and impossible love.
It’s the story of two women—both married—caught between what they feel and what the world says they’re allowed to want.
Valentina Saenz weaves memory, fiction, and raw emotional truth into a heartbreakingly honest exploration of what it means to almost touch the life you could have lived.
This isn’t a love story. It’s a survival story—with love in the margins.
Perfect for readers who loved In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, or the lyrical honesty of Ocean Vuong.
If you’ve ever loved quietly…
If you’ve ever walked away before the world caught you…
This book was written for you.
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2025
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November 14, 2025
I wanted this to be so much more. I love the set up. The blurb on the back really sells it but the content falls short. I wanted it to be an examination not just flirtation. The heartbreak i know we'll as an LGBTQ+ person... I just wanted that captured beautifully and it was but just not developed as fully as I wanted. Great effort, just not fully realized.
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