Overview

The last time I saw her, she was a wide-eyed, gawky teenager—still the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. My best friend. My first love. My greatest heartbreak.

Mel

I’ve spent my whole life in Hawthorn Bay, patrolling the beach as a lifeguard. It’s not glamorous, but it’s steady—just like me. Or so I thought.

When Avery walks back into my life after fifteen years, it’s like being caught in a riptide of memories I’ve spent years trying to bury. She’s the one who got away. The one I never stopped wanting. But wanting her means risking everything I’ve built to keep myself safe.

Avery

I swore I’d never come back to this suffocating town. But after a health scare forced me to step away from my high-powered tech career, I found myself drifting back to the one place I thought I’d left behind forever.

Hawthorn Bay holds more than just painful memories—it holds her. Mel. The girl who made me feel alive at fifteen, back when I was too scared to reach for what I really wanted. Now, standing on this shore again, I realize I’ve been running from the only thing that ever felt real.

When their worlds collide once more, Mel and Avery must face the choices that tore them apart—and the feelings that never faded. But the past has a way of surfacing, and the tide of regret and longing threatens to sweep them under.

Can they find their way back to each other, or will the weight of what they lost keep them apart forever?

Safer Shores is a steamy, emotional sapphic romance about second chances, true love, and the courage to risk it all for the one who got away.