If You Stay

At Bellmere College, Lennox Vale came for one reason: study, keep her head down, and never let another girl destroy her life again.
After being outed and betrayed at her strict religious school, Lennox transfers to Bellmere on a fragile track scholarship and one final chance to rebuild herself. No distractions. No risks. No falling for someone she can’t have.
Then she meets Corinne Hale.
Perfect daughter. Festival queen. Small-town royalty.
Corinne’s life looks flawless from the outside—until Lennox notices the cracks beneath the practiced smiles and polished speeches. Beneath the tiaras and expectations is a girl suffocating under the weight of everyone else’s plans for her future.
What begins as stolen glances and guarded conversations soon becomes something far more dangerous: understanding.
As Lennox fights to outrun her past and Corinne struggles to escape the life chosen for her, the two girls are pulled into a relationship neither of them can afford—but neither can resist.
Set against the backdrop of a lakeside college town filled with secrets, expectations, and quiet rebellion, If You Stay is a deeply emotional sapphic romance about identity, courage, first love, and learning when to stop running from the people who truly see you.