The Rehearsal: A Lumina Studios Novel

Romance Sage Hayes 63 17th Feb, 2026

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Overview

Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.

Sloane Barrett is 
America's Sweetheart—beloved actress, perfect smile, twenty years of playing the role of the happy wife. Except the marriage just ended, and for the first time in her life, she has no script to follow.

When her new role requires an on-screen 
sapphic storyline, the studio hires Morgan Tate, a sought-after intimacy coordinator who's supposed to teach Sloane how to simulate passion with a woman. There's just one problem: Morgan has had a crush on Sloane since the 90s, and the simulation is starting to feel dangerously real.

As Morgan guides Sloane through choreographed touches and consent-based boundaries, something shifts. For Sloane, every lesson in physical intimacy unlocks decades of 
repressed desire she never let herself examine. For Morgan, watching Sloane bloom into her queerness is agony—because she's sworn never to be an experiment for a curious straight woman again.

Sloane battles the imposter syndrome of 
late-blooming queerness, terrified she's just confused or rebounding. Morgan guards her heart, refusing to risk it on someone who might retreat. But the tension of almost touching can only last so long before the barrier breaks—and when it does, everything changes.

Can Sloane shed the performance of a lifetime to claim her truth? Or will fear of being an imposter keep her from the love that feels like coming home?

A sensual, emotionally charged sapphic romance featuring a late-blooming actress discovering her queerness, a butch intimacy coordinator protecting her heart, forbidden workplace attraction, and scorching chemistry that refuses to stay professional.

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