Pumpkin Spice Bi-Panic: A Cozy, Late-In-Life Lesbian Awakening Rom-Com

Addie Price is a master of the master list. At thirty-six, her career is thriving, her daily schedule is laminated, and her four-year relationship just ended with the quiet, amicable efficiency of an office meeting. She doesn’t cry. She doesn’t spiral. She packs her bookshelf, rents a third-floor walk-up, and checks the box.

Then a rainy morning detour sends her through the door of Moth & Maple, a neighborhood café that feels like the exact opposite of optimized throughput.

Behind the counter is Sloane Ibarra: tall, tattooed, unapologetically present, and armed with an espresso machine and a black Sharpie. Sloane doesn’t just make Addie’s hyper-specific cold brew order—she starts writing notes on the cups. Small observations. Casual compliments. Tiny, pointed challenges that slip right past Addie’s carefully constructed defenses.

Soon, Addie’s tidy routine unravels into lingering conversations, rainy sidewalk confessions, and a sudden, electric pull toward a woman that she can no longer dismiss as "aesthetic admiration." But letting herself want something real means dismantling the emotional armor that has kept her safe for decades.

And Sloane has one absolute rule: she will never be someone’s private, convenient secret again.

Can Addie find the courage to step out of the waiting room and claim the life—and the love—she actually wants in the daylight?

Pumpkin Spice Bi-Panic is a warm, witty, and deeply emotional contemporary romantic comedy about late-in-life awakening, breaking out of comfort zones, and learning that the best things in life can't be scheduled.