What's To Come

Juliet Stanway is supposed to be on vacation.
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After years of building a life that looks right on paper, she arrives in the Florida Keys, hoping sun and distance will smooth over what no longer fits. Instead, the island does the opposite. It slows everything down, removes the noise, and leaves Juliet alone with the parts of herself she’s been ignoring for far too long.
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When Juliet meets Mara Keel, a dive captain who lives close to the water and closer still to her own sense of self, nothing dramatic happens. There are no declarations. There is no pressure. Only the reveal of a way of to move through the world that doesn’t require performance.
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As the days stretch on, Juliet begins to notice what her body has been responding to all along. What it feels like to be near someone who does not persuade, insist, or claim. What it means to want without being asked to give something up in return.
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But change isn’t simple. History has weight, commitment has momentum, and choosing herself means facing what she can no longer pretend is enough.
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Set against the stillness of the Florida Keys, Sugar Palm Key is a slow-burn sapphic romance about reclaiming agency, learning how to stop yielding for others, and discovering intimacy that does not require self-erasure. It's a story about quiet transformation, embodied desire, and the courage it takes to finally listen.