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The Scent of Pretending: An Ice Queen Fake Dating Sapphic Romance

The Scent of Pretending: An Ice Queen Fake Dating Sapphic Romance

Vance, Meredith

Paperback

Series: The Ambition Series: Surgical Hearts, Book 6

General GLBTQIA Fiction

ISBN13: 9798161299487
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 10 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She has the most famous nose in New York. She hasn't smelled anything since March.

Margaux Lindqvist is the chief perfumer of Maison Ostrelle: exacting, untouchable, and known in the trade as the Snow Queen of Greene Street. No one knows that a fever took her sense of smell, or that her morning coffee now smells like burning rubber. So when her house's biggest launch is accused of copying a little-known perfume made in an old cannery on a Pacific Northwest island, Margaux can't even tell whether the accusation is true.

Della Marchetti made that perfume. She sells it for sixty-eight dollars, fixes everyone's problems except her own, and is about to lose the building her grandfather built. Ostrelle's head of PR offers her a fee, a royalty and her name on the bottle, on one condition: the world has to believe the collaboration was a love affair.

Six weeks. One island, one ferry, one workbench. A reformulation that only Della can smell and only Margaux can build. Hand-holding for the cameras, and quiet mornings when Della describes the world, note by note, to a woman who can't smell it.

The arrangement is supposed to be fake. Pretending turns out to be the hardest part.

The Scent of Pretending is a standalone sapphic romance with dual first-person POV, an ice-queen perfumer and the warm-hearted islander who sees through her, a small-town community, and a happily ever after. Open door, with explicit scenes; for adult readers.

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