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Functional Hours: A Slow-Burn Lesbian Erotic Romance of Awakening
Ingrid’s marriage has collapsed into logistics, silence, and scheduled sex that leaves her hollow. When she boards a ten-day photography workshop cruise across the Mediterranean, she tells herself it’s professional development—a contained escape she can survive without consequences.
Then she’s paired with Nadia.
Nadia isn’t another participant. She’s the assistant instructor, embedded in every shoot, every critique, every sunrise on deck. She controls access, schedules, proximity. She notices Ingrid—how she shoots, how she hesitates, how she hasn’t been touched with hunger in years. On a ship where cabins are thin-walled, routines are enforced, and privacy barely exists, Ingrid can’t step away without abandoning the work she came for.
What starts as admiration turns physical. Intimate. Dangerous.
Because Ingrid is married.
Because Nadia is staff.
Because the ship doesn’t stop moving—and neither does the desire building between them.
As storms trap them onboard and the lines between professionalism and wanting collapse, Ingrid is forced to confront a truth she’s avoided her entire adult the life she chose may not be the one that can hold her.
Functional Hours is a slow-burn, erotic lesbian awakening romance set in enforced proximity at sea—where every touch risks exposure, every choice has a cost, and wanting the wrong woman might finally break everything open.
Perfect for readers who
slow-burn lesbian erotica · erotic WLW tension · sapphic longing · forbidden intimacy · body-first awakening · desire before identity · quiet obsession
She doesn’t plan to want her.
She just can’t stop noticing.
And once she starts, there’s no way back.
Read free with Kindle Unlimited.
Come get lost in the unraveling.
Then she’s paired with Nadia.
Nadia isn’t another participant. She’s the assistant instructor, embedded in every shoot, every critique, every sunrise on deck. She controls access, schedules, proximity. She notices Ingrid—how she shoots, how she hesitates, how she hasn’t been touched with hunger in years. On a ship where cabins are thin-walled, routines are enforced, and privacy barely exists, Ingrid can’t step away without abandoning the work she came for.
What starts as admiration turns physical. Intimate. Dangerous.
Because Ingrid is married.
Because Nadia is staff.
Because the ship doesn’t stop moving—and neither does the desire building between them.
As storms trap them onboard and the lines between professionalism and wanting collapse, Ingrid is forced to confront a truth she’s avoided her entire adult the life she chose may not be the one that can hold her.
Functional Hours is a slow-burn, erotic lesbian awakening romance set in enforced proximity at sea—where every touch risks exposure, every choice has a cost, and wanting the wrong woman might finally break everything open.
Perfect for readers who
slow-burn lesbian erotica · erotic WLW tension · sapphic longing · forbidden intimacy · body-first awakening · desire before identity · quiet obsession
She doesn’t plan to want her.
She just can’t stop noticing.
And once she starts, there’s no way back.
Read free with Kindle Unlimited.
Come get lost in the unraveling.
76 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2026
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