Discovering Nicola (Oxford Romance #3)
Clare Ashton
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 18 ratings · 491 pages · Published: 01 May 2025

Yet when both are divorced and at a new stage in life, they find themselves living within glowering distance of each other, in beautiful Iffley Village, Oxford. Reluctantly they call a truce and try to make friends. It’s tricky though, when there’s more than one reason they’ve circled and snapped for years.
For a start, Geeta’s lawyer daughter, Olivia, idolises the eminent King's Counsel barrister, to eye rolls from Geeta. And to Nicola’s annoyance, her own daughter, Charlotte, has always turned to perfect mama Geeta for comfort and understanding. Animosity between the two is a given.
Until they force themselves to be nice to each other, that is, and then they’re compelled to question everything…
Read as a standalone romance or book 3 of the Oxford Romance series.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 5
- lesbian romance 5
- queer romance 4
- older/mature 4
- enemies to lovers 3
- queer awakening 2
- multicultural 2
- grumpy & sunshine 2
- south asian/desi 2
- grumpy/ice queen 2
- sweet/gentle heroine 2
- tall heroine 2
- curvy heroine 2
- white collar heroine 2
- angst 2
- best friend's parent 1
- secret relationship 1
- second chances 1
- caretaking 1
- pregnancy 1
- workplace/office 1
- single mother 1
- found family 1
- bisexuality 1
- cheerful/happy heroine 1
- sassy heroine 1
- competent heroine 1
- take-charge heroine 1
- independent heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child neglect 2
- queerphobia 1
- geography
- england 1
- united kingdom 1
- british isles 1
- Format
- dual pov 2
- third person pov 2
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