Spa Country

She feeds the whole town. Nobody feeds her.

Bea Lindqvist-Okafor is the first light on in Daylesford. She has the ovens on at The Larder before four, she knows how every regular takes their coffee, and she has kept the whole town fed through fire, snow and a bathhouse rescue. Then she wakes up on her feet at the toastie press, and somebody has turned it off and left a coffee by her hand.

Sol Mendes plans burns for the forest service and captains the local fire brigade. She's forty-one, she reads the weather for a living, and she never stays anywhere long enough to be thanked. Her father is forgetting her one day at a time, and she has decided she can carry that alone.

Two coffees at five a.m. turn into mushrooms in the pine forest, a dinner at Shepherds Flat, and a brass bed above the café with the curtains open. But a hotel chain wants to buy The Larder, Sol won't let anyone into the corridor outside her father's hospital room, and a storm is coming over the Wombat Forest.

Bea has always known how to give. This autumn, in spa country, she has to learn how to sit down and be fed.

A warm, steamy, standalone sapphic romance about a trans café owner, a fire captain, and the town that loves them. Explicit content. Happy ever after guaranteed.