Afterlight
Romance
Love in Focus by Lyla Lee (Afterlight 'Picture to Burn' Exclusive)
$27.00
About the product
A relationship advice columnist gets a second chance at love with her ex in this sapphic rom-com, perfect for fans of Ashley Herring Blake and Alexandria Bellefleur.
When her seven-year long relationship suddenly falls apart, relationship advice columnist Gemma Cho is convinced that real love doesn’t exist. As a bisexual woman who’s had zero luck with both men and women, she’s ready to give up on her own romantic prospects when she gets paired up with Celeste Min, a world-renowned photographer, on a highly visual, potentially career-saving piece on modern love.
Celeste is extremely talented, sexy, and gay, and would be the perfect collaborator and rebound for Gemma if it weren’t for one major fact: she’s Gemma’s ex, the one that broke her heart in college and moved to a whole another country before Gemma could even make sense of what went wrong between them. Despite working on a project together about what constitutes love and romance in the modern age, when it comes to their own affairs, both Gemma and Celeste are tripping over each other’s feet…and into each other’s arms.
Heightened by their shared love for love and the unmistakable sparks that still fly between them, Gemma and Celeste struggle to keep their relationship strictly professional. For the sake of her career, Gemma needs this piece to do well. And for the sake of what’s left of her beaten up hopeless romantic heart, she wants to fall head over heels for Celeste again. But can she trust Celeste to feel the same this time around?
LOVE IN FOCUS is a second chance sapphic rom com that will appeal to fans of THE BOLD TYPE and DELILAH GREEN DOESN’T CARE.
If you like hate to love romances and Chappell Roan songs, we think you’ll enjoy this one!
Our Afterlight Exclusive edition is a B-format hardback and features:
- An exclusive cover (from the publisher)
- Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @beanireen18; design by @perrycuffdesigns)
- Digitally printed edges (by @perrycuffdesigns)
- Illustrated endpapers (by @nanna.arts); different front and back
- Bound-in author letter
- Bonus chapter
- Hand signed by the author
- Adult standalone romance
- F/F romance, femme bisexual Asian FMC and femme lesbian Asian FMC, femme lesbian Black secondary character and masc lesbian Latina secondary character, Korean diaspora rep (American and immigrant), and other minor queer characters (gay, nonbinary, and lesbian)
Photos by @bookwormgram
One of USA Today's Hottest Summer Romances of 2025
One of Goodreads's Recommended LGTBTQ+ Reads to Celebrate Pride
Tropes for Love in Focus include: roommates to lovers to enemies to lovers, second chance, formed proximity
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