Downloading In the Next Room

After ten years of distance, only one wall separates them now

Talia Hart is a free-spirited artist bartending her way through her troubles. She's collecting rejection emails, chasing women who never stay past sunrise, and keeping real intimacy safely out of reach since her ex shattered her world. Not that it's ever worked for anyone.

Natalie Bennett runs her life like a spreadsheet. Her love life runs on the same system, with the same exhausting results. Every partner follows the ideal script: a nice guy who mimics everything she's been told to want. But that means she's still waiting for the spark everyone talks about. She's watched enough romcoms to know exactly what it's supposed to feel like, and now she's wondering if she's broken or if she's just been asking the wrong question entirely.

Talia and Natalie were once inseparable. High school best friends who shared rain-soaked porches, movie nights, and the kind of easy closeness that felt like it could survive anything. Then college happened, and distance, and the slow drift that neither of them ever quite found the words to stop.

When a roommate emergency lands them under the same roof in Brooklyn, ten years of separation fall away. So does something Talia has been running from for a decade, and a question Natalie has never thought to ask herself.

In The Next Room is a slow-burn sapphic romance about the courage it takes to stop running from the person who's always felt like home.

Dual POV • Forced proximity • Friends to lovers • Second chance • Slow burn