Scorpio Rising

De: Maisie Bell

A sapphic roommates-to-lovers romance about mental health, healing from heartbreak, and the blurry line between pretending and falling for real.

Antonia Paredes is heart-broken. After getting dumped in the middle of her first tour as lead guitarist, all she wants to focus on is finishing her band’s album. Easier said than done, when the person she moves in with after being kicked out of her flat is none other than Juno Wilde, the world-famous singer the band spent the summer touring with, and her teenage daughter. Behind closed doors, Juno is Julia—a woman nine years older than her who is kind and charismatic and so beautiful, Toni sometimes doesn’t know what to do with herself.

When a paparazzi shot of Toni going home to Julia is released, Toni and Julia agree to lean into their rumored relationship. It’s everything Toni needs: companionship and a distraction with no vulnerability required.

But through month-long cohabitation, posing on red carpets together, and sharing nights at the recording studio, the lines between real and fake begin to blur. Soon the safety of pretending gives way to something much deeper than Toni signed up for. With her heart only just on the mend, can she risk giving it to someone else?