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    Desire: This Lesbian Love: A Lesbian Romance
    Desire: This Lesbian Love: A Lesbian Romance
    Desire: This Lesbian Love: A Lesbian Romance
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    Desire: This Lesbian Love: A Lesbian Romance

    By Celeste Fox

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    After giving up on the idea of marriage to a man, Harriet is starting over. More than ever, she’s focused on finding herself and what she wants in life, and when the opportunity to move in with Zoelle presents itself, she can hardly say no.

    After all, she needs a new place to live, and the arrangement with Zoelle seems like it would be perfect... and not just because she finds herself exceedingly attracted to the young woman, something Harriet is not entirely familiar with...

    Zoelle leads a quiet, private life - but you wouldn’t know it from the outside. Confident and assertive, most assume her sense of self to be unshakeable, but in reality, she longs for love... and finds it hard to make the first move.

    When, through the help of a mutual friend, she secures an arrangement to be roommates with Harriet, she’s floored by how gorgeous she finds the woman. She craves her attention, desires her touch... but she doesn’t know if Harriet feels the same way.

    Will these two new roommates struggling to find love open up to each other, and see that what they’re looking for is hiding in plain sight? And will Harriet allow herself to change in a fundamental way... for the chance at happiness?

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    Desire is a steamy and sensual full-length lesbian romance from Celeste Fox, author of ‘Crave’ and ‘Covet’, telling the love story of two women finding unexpected love. This F/F romance novel contains graphic descriptions of explicit lesbian situations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCeleste Fox
    Release dateApr 11, 2019
    ISBN9788832572315
    Desire: This Lesbian Love: A Lesbian Romance

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      Desire - Celeste Fox

      situations.

      Chapter 1

      Harriet had always tried to maintain a positive attitude to life, despite the setbacks she faced. The motivational poster in her kitchen basically stated that the sun still shone from behind the clouds. It had been a present from a guy she’d once dated. If she’d been willing to go along to his church she might well have become Mrs. Harriet Adams, but the thought of becoming a Christian just to get a guy down on one knee was too much for her. They’d parted on friendly terms and she still thought of him as a hell of a nice guy.

      She thought of Peter the week her housemate moved out of their rented home in Belgrave, it was one of those thoughts that pops into your head and despite your best efforts to ignore it or push it to the back of your mind it keeps coming to the fore. There was no way she could afford the rent now that Raelene was gone, the house was located a mere five minutes’ walk from the main street of Belgrave and the train station. It was in a prime location, something the landlord had no doubt factored into his calculations when he set the rent so high.

      There were plenty of queries over the next month but the price was a little on the steep side and she began to seriously contemplate moving back to her parents’ home in Chirnside Park. It wouldn’t be the first time and yet she didn’t make that call yet, it would mean travelling even further to work and yet on balance she admitted she’d be better off with a reduced rent. She privately conceded it was pride that stopped her. This was a place she’d fought to get and for the last few years she’d managed to stay here and in that time she’d been through three housemates. The high rent wasn’t the only factor though, her first housemate was working in the city at the time and the travel was killing her. When you added in the isolation factor it made life harder, Belgrave was the last stop on the Belgrave line, so owning a car kind of went without saying.

      Nevertheless, the thought of calling Peter did stay with her for that month and she didn’t act on it until a potential applicant suddenly called to tell her that she’d found a cheaper room. She didn’t know why that angered her but it did and she stared at that bloody poster as she ended the call and leaned on the island bench in the kitchen.

      Okay, God, she directed her voice at the poster, I give in, I’ll call him.

      Despite her desperate straits she tried to make it sound like one of those, ‘how ya going, calls and now I’ve got you by the short and curlies, Raelene has moved out and did he know of anyone who might like to rent a room?’ There was a momentary pause and she actually thought the call had dropped out and then he let out one of his ‘well that’s an answer to prayer.’

      Sorry? Harriet moved closer to the window.

      Um, yeah I know someone, hang on, let me call you back in five.

      He hung up and she waited for a few minutes. Who could he have in mind? Someone from his church? It brought a slight frown to her face. Raelene was a white witch, now she was calling on a Christian. I’ve gone from one to the other, her eyes shifted as the phone rang again and she swiped the screen and put the phone to her ear.

      Peter.

      Sorry, just had to call my cousin. She’s interested, but there’s a slight problem, he paused, although it might not worry you so much.

      What’s the slight problem? Harriet pictured some theological student or pastor.

      She’s gay, she just broke up with her partner and right now she’s staying at a friend’s place but it’s a temporary thing, she’s looking for six months at least, maybe more.

      Oh, Harriet smiled and put her back to the window.

      I’m not homophobic, she went on, when you said slight problem I thought she’d just lost her job or had multiple personality problems.

      No, nothing like that. Zoelle is thirty six, she’s a database manager at Swinburne TAFE in Croydon and very stable. I know I’m biased but it’s true. You couldn’t meet a nicer woman.

      Okay, so bring her around. It’s been a while since we caught up.

      It took another call to Zoelle before he came back with a time.

      Friday night? About sevenish?

      Perfect, I’ll order a pizza.

      Don’t worry about that I’ll pick it up on the way through.

      She managed a smile when she put the phone down. Sometimes giving in to urges paid off and other times it went nowhere. So the woman was gay? She pictured Kelly as she touched the tattoo. Kelly had wound up with Jodie, another woman at her gym and yet despite the fact that Harriet had harboured a crush on her they all remained friends. Kelly and Jodie were just one of three gay couples the other two were in Olinda. This past year had seen her circle of friends widen a little more to include these couples, and yet she always felt as if she was just skirting around the edges of the gay community. So far no one had suggested she dip her toes.

      This should be interesting, she mused that night as she slipped under the duvet.

      That week was busier than normal. Harriet worked as a manager at a beauty counter down at Knox City and that Friday saw her dealing with a regional manager she’d come to hate with a passion. The woman was a classic example of someone promoted way above her abilities and there were times she suspected the woman knew it. Harriet managed to satisfy her and keep the girls from staging a revolt and then she was heading home.

      She did think of Zoelle as she drove past Kelly’s tattoo studio in Upwey and wondered if she should drop in and see if Kelly knew someone called Zoelle but the traffic behind her was too heavy and she still had to get changed and make sure the house was as tidy as possible. She’d done her housework the previous night but this was something she couldn’t

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