{"product_id":"the-straight-girl-tax-blair-lennox-9798171825461","title":"The Straight Girl Tax: A Friends-to-Lovers Sapphic Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen years of unrequited love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen contractual safety clauses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZero provisions for what happens when the straight girl kisses back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs fractional CFO, Aster Bly has two absolute rules: keep Carrow Coast Swim solvent, and keep her decade-long devotion to its founder strictly off the ledger. She calls it the straight girl tax-the invisible surcharge for being indispensable to a woman who will never want her. When a liquidity crunch and a predatory acquisition threaten to bankrupt the company, only one lifeline remains: an all-expenses-paid investor retreat on a private Caribbean island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catch? The venture fund only backs founders with proven, long-term support partners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFia Carrow has built her swimwear brand on creative instinct, architectural seaming, and the unwavering presence of her devastatingly competent best friend. Desperate to save thirty-two jobs, Fia does what she always does-she improvises. She enters Aster as her partner on the RSVP form without asking and assumes the operational details will sort themselves out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo survive seven days of couple's evaluations without detonating a decade of silence, Aster drafts an ironclad seventeen-clause safety contract. No unscripted touching. No romantic improvisation. No falling in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept one rehearsal kiss in a dark studio shatters the terms before the plane even takes off. The demilitarized pillow border in their villa collapses on night one. And between sun-drenched beaches, corporate sabotage, and moonlight in the resort pool, Fia begins to realize that straight was just an assumption she never tested-and the woman holding her together is the only one she wants taking her apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a ruthless investor tries to weaponize their relationship to steal the company, Aster and Fia must face the hardest audit of their lives: can a ten-year friendship survive the transition from invisible devotion to public truth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Straight Girl Tax is a full-length contemporary sapphic romance featuring friends-to-lovers, fake dating, forced proximity (only one bed), a late-blooming bisexual awakening, and a fiercely competent heroine who finally gets claimed out in the open. Guaranteed HEA.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blair Lennox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798171825461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Blair Lennox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50847940411647,"sku":"9798171825461","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-straight-girl-tax-blair-lennox-9798171825461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}