The VIP Suite (Lesbian Romance Coastal Oregon Small Town Second Chance #2)
Sage Hayes
Former Senator Julianne Parks has spent thirty years living a lie. At fifty-five, recently outed by a tabloid and forced to resign in disgrace, she arrives at Crescent Bay Resort on the run—terrified, buttoned-up, and carrying three decades of internalized homophobia like a stone in her chest.
Casey Thorne, the resort's forty-four-year-old Head of Security, is assigned as Julianne's personal bodyguard. Casey is a local butch heartthrob who lives a quiet, solitary life on the coast—and she's completely unfazed by Julianne's former power. She treats the ex-Senator like a normal human being, which is both disorienting and intoxicating.
The bodyguard romance creates forced proximity: Casey is the only person allowed into Julianne's carefully controlled space. As Julianne begins to unravel—experiencing what feels like a second adolescence, overwhelmed by desires she suppressed for a lifetime—Casey finds herself drawn to this brilliant, wounded woman discovering herself for the first time.
But Casey has been burned by closeted women before. She refuses to be someone's experiment.
Julianne must confront the lifetime she lost to fear and performance, learning that she doesn't have to lead or control everything—especially not in the bedroom. Casey must decide whether she can trust that Julianne's transformation is real, or if this powerful woman will retreat to her old life once the dust settles.
A later-in-life coming out romance about reclaiming a lifetime lost to shame, discovering that desire can be joyful instead of sinful, and finding the courage to live authentically—no matter how late it feels.
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