Stone and Seeming

One of them is always leaned on.

One of them is never really seen.

Magda Novak is the shoulders of the six, the team of women Highcairn University sends up the mountain trials each season: a stonemason's apprentice with horns, big hands and the loudest laugh in the room, and the one everybody leans on. She let her last girlfriend go without a fight. This season, with the six chasing a Cairn final Highcairn has never reached, she wants one thing for herself: someone to choose her. There is one problem. She has forgotten how to flirt.

Nadia Alvarez can wear any face she likes, and usually does. She has dated half the town below the university and never once in her own face. Teaching her teammate to date should be easy.

The lessons are supposed to be practice.

One of them pretends for a living. Neither of them can pretend this.

Told in turns by both women, Stone and Seeming is a steamy sapphic romantasy about the woman everyone leans on and the woman no one has seen: dating lessons that stop being practice, a team that has their backs, and a happy ending guaranteed.

Book 2 of Highcairn University. Each book stands on its own and follows a new couple, but readers will also enjoy them in sequence.

For readers 18 and over.