Nobody's Girl

She doesn’t want to be anybody’s girlfriend. She wants to be the only one.

Sy knows how to read a room.

She knows when a woman is interested, what she wants, and exactly how close to let her get before morning comes. It’s a routine Sy has perfected—controlled, uncomplicated, and over before anybody can mistake desire for something deeper.

Then Nia Branch walks into her Norfolk barbershop.

Nia is grown, grounded, and far too busy running her catering business to waste time on a woman who treats honesty like a trap. She doesn’t need Sy to rescue her, impress her, or promise her forever. She only asks for the truth, consistency, and the courage to show up.

That proves harder than Sy expects.

Because beneath the quiet confidence, careful routines, and reputation for never getting attached is a woman still shaped by an old betrayal. And the more Nia sees past Sy’s defenses, the more Sy must decide whether protecting herself is worth losing the first relationship that feels like home.

Tender, sharp, funny, and unapologetically grown, Nobody’s Girlfriend is a steamy Black sapphic romance about two women building something real in a world where love requires more than attraction—it requires presence.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Emotionally guarded × emotionally grounded

• Grown-woman Black romance

• Barbershop community and found family

• Norfolk flavor and working-class realism

• High heat with emotional purpose

• Vulnerability, accountability, and a hard-won happy ending