Overview

When the opportunity of a lifetime comes knocking, Claire Brennan is ready for a break from responsibility and the stuck feeling that won’t go away. Move across the world to Vancouver for six months? Absolutely.

Stacie Farran is a career-obsessed eternal optimist, so when the opportunity to trade jobs with a colleague in Belfast comes up, she jumps at the chance. That it gives her a bit of space from her girlfriend doesn’t hurt either.

Living in each other’s shoes, Claire and Stacie discover so much about each other and get a fresh perspective on their own lives as well. When a family emergency has Claire returning home early and they finally meet, the attraction they felt from afar is real.

But Stacie’s stay is temporary. Are they on a collision course to a long-distance dating disaster or will love find a way?

About Emma L. McGeown

Emma L McGeown is an award-winning Irish writer. Previous works include Aurora, Sugar Girl and Before She Was Mine which won a Golden Crown Literary Award in 2024. Her latest novel, Back to Belfast was released in 2024.

Professionally, Emma works in her family's greeting card business. She currently lives in Northern Ireland with her wife and daughter.

In her free time, she has spent much of her 20’s travelling and reading queer fiction, including fanfiction, though she will never voice it out loud. Her main characters are almost always LGBTQ because why not? Positive representation has never been more important and the three-dimensional folks she creates in her writing try to offer a unique voice with heart, flaws and of course humour.