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Love in Focus

by Lyla Lee

A second chance, framed by a story about love

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A second chance, framed by a story about love

After a seven-year relationship ends, columnist Gemma Cho is assigned to work with photographer Celeste Min on a career-saving piece about modern love. The collaboration brings Gemma face to face with her college ex, whose departure left her with unresolved questions. Their professional arrangement now sits alongside old heartbreak and renewed attraction, while Gemma weighs the possibility of trusting Celeste again. The setup links a contemporary romance to Gemma’s work exploring relationships, giving the story both a second-chance love plot and a look at how personal experience can complicate advice about love. Gemma is bisexual, and the central relationship is between two women.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in sapphic contemporary romance and second-chance relationships.
  • Readers who enjoy romantic stories involving former partners and unresolved history.
  • Readers drawn to fiction that brings relationship advice and modern love into its premise.

Themes

Second chancesTrust and heartbreakBisexuality and sapphic romanceModern love and relationship advice

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Book overview

A relationship advice columnist gets a second chance at love with her ex in this sapphic rom-com, perfect for fans of Ashley Herring Blake and Alexandria Bellefleur.

When her boyfriend of seven years suddenly breaks up with her, relationship advice columnist Gemma Cho is convinced that real love doesn't exist. As a bisexual woman who's had zero luck with both men and women, she's ready to give up on her own romantic prospects. That is, until she's paired up with world-renowned photographer Celeste Min on a potentially career-saving piece on modern love.

Celeste is extremely talented and sexy, and would be the perfect collaborator and rebound for Gemma--if it weren't for the fact that she's Gemma's ex, the one that broke her heart in college and moved to a whole other country before Gemma could even make sense of what went wrong between them. Heightened by the unmistakable sparks that still fly between them, Gemma and Celeste struggle to keep their relationship strictly professional. For the sake of her career, Gemma needs this piece to do well. And for the sake of what's left of her beaten up hopeless romantic heart, she wants to fall head over heels for Celeste again.

But can she trust Celeste to feel the same this time around?

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