Genesis wasn’t looking for rescue—only for space to breathe. Between long shifts at the café and the noise inside her own head, she’d learned to survive by staying busy, joking her way through the ache that never fully left. Then an unexpected call from a childhood friend reopens a wound she thought had finally healed, forcing her to confront the truth about what was taken from her a year ago.
When Aurora—older, patient, and quietly magnetic—returns to the city, the easy comfort between them deepens into something lasting. A day that begins with laughter ends with an act of cruelty from strangers, sending Genesis to Aurora’s quiet lake house in Raymond. There, surrounded by still water and new silence, she learns what peace—and surrender—can feel like.
What grows between them is slow and trust, care, and a love that asks to be chosen every day.
Genre & IntensityThis book is lesbian erotica featuring explicit sexual content between consenting adults. It
A nurturing D/s dynamic with gentle punishment and praise
Erotic lactation
Age-gap romance
Themes of trust, surrender, and emotional healing
It also contains references to past sexual assault and a homophobic incident. These events are handled with sensitivity and focus on recovery.
Tayden E. Collins writes sapphic erotica rooted in raw attraction and real emotion—stories full of heat, heart, and women who know what they want. A lesbian author writing lesbian characters, her work centers exclusively on relationships between women, without compromise or apology.
Her stories range from playful and irreverent to dark and otherworldly, always grounded in desire, consent, and emotional conviction. The women she writes reflect the complexity of lived experience—shaped by expectation, history, and the ongoing process of self-understanding.
Specializing in serialized fiction, Tayden crafts scenes meant to be devoured in one sitting—intimate, intense, and designed to unfold over time, with one rule throughout: every couple she writes gets a happy ending.
She lives on the East Coast with her fiancée, far too many notebooks, and a very pampered Maine Coon rescue.
4 stars. FINALLY! I’ve been wanting more of Genesis and Aurora’s story and this was really good. Now I have to wait for book three. I love how tender and full of trust the relationship is between them and while Genesis is still working through trauma Aurora is there for her every step of the way and it’s beautiful.