They haven’t mentioned the kiss since it happened and the resolutions they’ve taken in their time apart are radically different. A month and a half later, Marina flies to Halifax to celebrate Iz’s twenty-first birthday.
Lately, they’ve both felt their relationship change, culminating in a sloppy drunken peck on the lips on New Year’s Eve. Iz and Marina have been best friends since they were toddlers. It’s set a few months after the first book but both stories can be read as standalone, though I recommend reading Catch and Cradle first. I was writing my review of Catch and Cradle and browsing the author’s website where I found about this novella, starring Iz, Hope’s nonbinary housemate, and I just had to stop everything and read it. Stop and Stare is a sapphic NBLW romance novella from Katia Rose that features two best friends stumbling their way into love as they figure out adulthood along the way. They’ll need to figure their heart out-and soon-because Marina is done waiting for Iz to realize what she’s known all along: Now that a lifelong friendship is on the line, Iz can’t stop thinking about the times love has left them burned. That moment shows up at the stroke of midnight, but instead of pulling them together, the kiss only seems to push them apart. She’s spent years waiting for the right moment to come along and make Iz see it too. Marina Townsend has always known she and her best friend Iz were made to be more than friends.
What they didn’t expect was to have their world turned upside down by a champagne-fueled New Year’s kiss with the girl who’s been their best friend since toddlerhood. So far their quest to find Miss Right has only resulted in heartbreak and way too many awkward run-ins with exes at the campus sports bar, but at the end of the day, Iz can always count on their friends, their glorious collection of designer sneakers, and their steadfast belief that love is out there somewhere to get them back in the game. Granted, life as a non-binary jock at a small coastal university does not exactly present a wealth of opportunity, but that hasn’t stopped Iz from seizing the day. Iz Sanchez has looked for love just about everywhere. Sometimes love is in the last place you look.
Author's note: this novella is available as an exclusive free download on Katia Rose's website.
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