Knot Your Average Neighbor: An Opposites-Attract Sapphic Romance

I have a color-coded spreadsheet for my entire life. My gorgeously chaotic neighbor is about to unravel every single line.

Emilia Hart does not do spontaneous. As a senior attorney on the brink of making partner, she navigates life through rigid discipline, impeccable blazers, and calculated control. But when a looming firm gala requires her to look settled and stable in front of her judgmental ex-wife and managing partner, panic takes the wheel—and Emilia blurts out that she’s in a relationship.

Enter Mara Velez: the vibrant, tattoo-sleeved rope artist running a consent-focused fiber arts studio right next door.

Mara has her own crisis on Winding Creek Lane. The neighborhood association is threatening to shut down her studio, and she desperately needs a brilliant legal mind to fight the board.

The deal is straightforward:

Mara plays the doting, magnetic girlfriend at Emilia’s high-stakes firm events.

Emilia handles Mara’s HOA defense pro bono.

Rule Number One: No real feelings, and absolutely no crossing the physical line.

Except Mara doesn't just play the role—she pays attention. She teaches Emilia how to ask for what she actually wants, grounding Emilia's tightly wound anxiety with soft cotton rope, fierce patience, and electric touch.

As the lines between public performance and private desire blur into something undeniable, Emilia must decide whether holding onto her safe, predictable career is worth losing the only woman who has ever made her feel truly seen.

Knot Your Average Neighbor is a full-length, high-spice, dual-POV lesbian romance featuring an uptight lawyer, a sunny artisan, high-stakes fake dating, heavy verbal consent, and a whole lot of knotty tension. Guaranteed HEA.