The Never Rose Show by Lauren Hart

Second chances, straight lies, sapphic truth… are they brave enough to choose each other?

Harper Angel does not believe in new beginnings, but flying to the Amalfi Coast to work as the on-set photographer for the queer dating phenomenon The Sapphic Match feels like one. Once a globe-trotting wildlife photographer, now freshly divorced, she signs on the second an article tips her off to who’s running the show. This entire job is a calculated chance to face Elise Mercier, the woman she walked away from in the Namibian desert and the one regret she has never outrun.
Elise Mercier has spent years turning chaos into ratings, and clawing her way up to executive producer of the sapphic reality show the internet calls The Never Rose Show. After previous disastrous seasons, she is determined this one will finally make it to the last ceremony with no host scandals, no crew entanglements, and absolutely no personal feelings. Then Harper walks into the villa in Positano, and the kiss Elise wrote off as beer and desert heat crashes back with a force that shakes every careful rule she has built her life around.
The network wants reinvention, the fans want another train wreck, and Harper and Elise want answers to a night that never really ended. As contestants toast under lemon trees and drama blooms on cue, every stolen moment behind the cameras makes it harder to pretend their chemistry is history instead of the real story unfolding in the shadows. As the last episode locks, Harper and Elise must decide if they will slip back into the straight roles that kept them safe or finally step into the love that actually fits.