Overview

What We Hold Between Us is a slow-burn queer romance about trust, trauma, and the quiet revolution of letting someone in.

Haley Ashcroft doesn’t do vulnerability. A brilliant hacker with a courtroom case looming over her and a past she refuses to name, she lives by a simple rule: control the narrative or become it. But when a judge mandates therapy, she finds herself across from Dr. Lena Vaughn—steady, unflinching, and far more disarming than any firewall Haley has ever breached.

Lena Vaughn has built her career on boundaries. She listens without judgment, offers refuge without entanglement. But Haley is unlike any client she’s ever known—sharp, guarded, and achingly human beneath the armor. When Haley’s court-mandated sessions come to an end, the real story begins: one built not on power or roles, but choice.

As their relationship shifts from clinical to personal, they must navigate the fragile space between professional ethics and undeniable connection. And when whispers of impropriety surface, threatening Lena’s career and Haley’s progress, both women are forced to confront what they’re willing to risk—for truth, for healing, and for each other.

Told with lyrical intimacy, razor-sharp dialogue, and emotional precision, What We Hold Between Us explores what happens when two women—each trained to keep their walls high—begin to dismantle them together. It’s a story of love that unfolds in pauses, texts, late-night coffee, courtroom storms, and quiet mornings.

Because some stories aren’t meant to be rushed.

They’re meant to be held.