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Soft Collar
After the triad that nearly broke her, Emilia wants something smaller. One woman. One bed. No charts.
She finds Mira at a queer community centre in Toronto — calm, structured, older, and exactly the kind of woman who can drop her voice half an octave and make Emilia hand over her keys without arguing. When Mira offers her a collar, Emilia says yes with her eyes open.
For a while, it works. Soft rules. Quiet evenings. A notebook with four words — body, work, sex, emotion — and the relief of being held inside someone else's order.
But Emilia's wiring doesn't simplify just because she wants it to. When Noor walks into the centre with opinions about systems and a smile that won't stay in its lane, Emilia discovers that choosing one person doesn't stop her from feeling drawn to another. And Mira, who loves her honestly and fiercely, cannot bend far enough to hold what Emilia is becoming.
Soft Collar is a novel about desire, structure, and the courage it takes to stop pretending you fit a shape that was never yours — even when that shape is held by the safest hands you've ever known.
Book 2 in the Every Second Friday series. Can be read as a standalone.
She finds Mira at a queer community centre in Toronto — calm, structured, older, and exactly the kind of woman who can drop her voice half an octave and make Emilia hand over her keys without arguing. When Mira offers her a collar, Emilia says yes with her eyes open.
For a while, it works. Soft rules. Quiet evenings. A notebook with four words — body, work, sex, emotion — and the relief of being held inside someone else's order.
But Emilia's wiring doesn't simplify just because she wants it to. When Noor walks into the centre with opinions about systems and a smile that won't stay in its lane, Emilia discovers that choosing one person doesn't stop her from feeling drawn to another. And Mira, who loves her honestly and fiercely, cannot bend far enough to hold what Emilia is becoming.
Soft Collar is a novel about desire, structure, and the courage it takes to stop pretending you fit a shape that was never yours — even when that shape is held by the safest hands you've ever known.
Book 2 in the Every Second Friday series. Can be read as a standalone.
440 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2026
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