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The Violet Pennant
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They inherited opposite halves of a lesbian sports bar. Saving it may be easier than surviving each other.
Sabine Flores knows how to rescue failing businesses-and when to walk away. Returning to Lake Arden for her aunt's funeral was supposed to be temporary. Then Dottie leaves Sabine the building that houses the Violet Pennant, a beloved lesbian sports bar, while leaving the bar itself to Rhea Donnelly, the former professional catcher who has kept it alive through grief, bad plumbing, late invoices, and sheer stubbornness.
For six months, neither woman gets a clean exit.
Sabine sees debt, deferred repairs, and a developer's increasingly lucrative offer. Rhea sees thirty-two years of queer history, a community that needs somewhere to belong, and one more person trying to reduce the Pennant to a line item.
Then their uneasy truce becomes a revived women's softball league, late nights over spreadsheets, kitchen disasters, rain delays-and a slow-burn attraction neither of them can audit away.
But saving the Pennant may require both women to surrender the kind of control they've built their lives around. And choosing each other might mean learning that love isn't the same thing as being trapped, needed, or indispensable.
Warm, witty, and emotionally grounded, The Violet Pennant is an adult sapphic romantic comedy about competence, found family, queer community, and two women who inherit half a problem and accidentally build a life big enough for both of them.
Slow burn Opposites attract Forced proximity Competence attraction Community softball Found family HEA
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