„Fleeting” is a steamy dark romance novella of 20,100 words about two good women, undone by one magnetic criminal. Set in the magnolia-drenched shadows of Richmond, Virginia — where two sisters discover they've been sleeping with the same man, and choose, against every instinct of decency, not to stop. A story of forbidden desire, criminal secrets, and a sisterhood that survives what it should not.

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Lilith has always arrived second. Second to her sister Chloe in attention, in achievements, in every significant moment of her twenty-seven years. So when a magnetic stranger with a reputation that whispers through Richmond's private rooms fixes his attention on her, she lets herself fall. Hard. Fast. Completely.

Jonathan watches her the way he watches everything worth acquiring—with patience, with precision, with the particular stillness of a man who has learned that wanting something too openly is the fastest way to lose it. He takes her to rooftop terraces and hotel suites. He tells her nothing about the scar below his collarbone or the phone calls he takes behind closed doors. He lets her believe she is the only woman in his world.

For thirteen days, she is.

Then the truth arrives in a public garden with a waterfall running: Jonathan has been with Chloe all along. The sisters have been sharing a man who moves stolen art across three cities, who keeps a semi-permanent suite at the Jefferson, who has never once considered choosing between them because choosing has never been his way.

The confrontation happens in a kitchen with a kettle that never boils. Chloe arrives furious and heartbroken. Jonathan arrives an hour later and tells Lilith the most disturbing thing she has ever heard: he wants them both, he will not pretend otherwise, and his honesty is somehow worse than any lie.

Now the sisters who once painted roses together in their grandmother's garden must decide what survives this. Chloe's professional world is watching. Jonathan's criminal past is surfacing. And Lilith holds a garden key she has carried since childhood, wondering if there's any way back to who she was before she met him.

However, will he let any of them go?

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“Fleeting” is for every reader who has ever wondered if love has to fit a prescribed shape. This isn't your typical sibling's-partner romance—it's a raw, unflinching exploration of two women who refuse to be pitted against each other, and a man who loves them both without apology. With compressed timeline tension that will leave you breathless, morally complex characters you'll crave, and a why-choose resolution that delivers on every promise, this novella proves that the most forbidden love stories sometimes deserve the happiest endings. Fall in love with something fleeting—and discover it was never meant to let you go.

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