One I Knew
Rita Potter
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
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Open door [?]
· 9 ratings · 364 pages · Published: 04 Feb 2025

Hollywood darling Mallory St. Cloud has it An Emmy, Grammy, and now an Oscar. She’s forty, feted, fabulous…and empty. On a whim, she leaves LA for Maplecrest, Pennsylvania, the hometown she fled when she was eighteen.
Dependable Andi Grainger, owner of Maplecrest’s successful handy business Chicks with Tool Belts, is startled to see her famous former best friend back in town.
Soon, it’s as if their friendship never ended. Mallory discovers the connection she’s been missing in her shallow social circle. But Andi has to deal with the fact her straight, gorgeous, unattainable friend, the subject of Andi’s hopeless teenage crush, is right in front of her again.
Except…Mallory’s not quite so straight anymore. And there’s a whole lot of pain beneath the surface they’ve been tiptoeing around. Is it time to be honest with each other at long last?
Tagged as:
- lesbian romance 2
- queer romance 2
- contemporary 1
- famous heroine 1
- working class heroine 1
- independent heroine 1
- competent heroine 1
- class difference 1
- friends to lovers 1
- second chances 1
- slow burn 1
- caretaking 1
- betrayal 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- alcoholism 1
- past child neglect 1
- death / grief 1
- substance abuse 1
- terminal illness 1