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The Window Back
Whitley Asante has been a legend for nine years and a divorced woman for eight months. The marriage was real. Marcus was kind. The love was the kind you have when you have not yet figured out you wanted a different one. Then she turned forty and started having dreams about women and stopped sleeping, and Marcus, who had also been paying attention, suggested the divorce. They text on his birthday.
Her mother was diagnosed with early-onset dementia three months ago. The Indian Village house Whitley lives in alone is too big, too quiet, and full of furniture nobody is sitting in. The franchise offers her a playoff-run consultancy. She says yes the way a drowning person says yes to a rope.
Mona DeWitt is twenty-six, queer, out, and the Diamonds' social media manager. She has been queer her whole adult life and has no patience for queer-as-revelation discourse. Watching the legend perform fine in front of her is making her want to ask one extremely specific question, which is what is Whitley actually reading right now, and is she going to keep pretending to read it.
Sapphic. Bi-awakening. Age gap (15 years). Workplace. Grief healing. OCD in flare. High heat. Standalone HEA.
Whitley thought the window had closed at twenty-six. Mona is opening it from the other side.
Her mother was diagnosed with early-onset dementia three months ago. The Indian Village house Whitley lives in alone is too big, too quiet, and full of furniture nobody is sitting in. The franchise offers her a playoff-run consultancy. She says yes the way a drowning person says yes to a rope.
Mona DeWitt is twenty-six, queer, out, and the Diamonds' social media manager. She has been queer her whole adult life and has no patience for queer-as-revelation discourse. Watching the legend perform fine in front of her is making her want to ask one extremely specific question, which is what is Whitley actually reading right now, and is she going to keep pretending to read it.
Sapphic. Bi-awakening. Age gap (15 years). Workplace. Grief healing. OCD in flare. High heat. Standalone HEA.
Whitley thought the window had closed at twenty-six. Mona is opening it from the other side.
370 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 14, 2026
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