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The Way She Looks at Me
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Valerie Fox Publications
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Josie knows exactly who she is. Convincing herself that someone else might truly want her is harder.
At twenty-five, she is rebuilding a life that no longer revolves around fear. Leaving Thomas, the man she once loved and the man who nearly destroyed her, cost Josie more than she expected. But surviving him also gave her the chance to start over and finally admit what she wants most: a relationship with a woman.
Online dating quickly teaches her that honesty comes with its own kind of pain. Some women disappear when they learn she is transgender. Others make it clear that being pre-op is enough to exclude her from the kind of love she wants. Each rejection leaves Josie wondering whether there will always be something about her body that keeps another woman from seeing her completely.
Then she meets Lena.
Warm, funny, and openly lesbian, Lena doesn't pretend that dating a transgender woman is familiar territory. She has questions. She has uncertainties. But instead of walking away, she stays, and what begins as cautious possibility slowly becomes something Josie is afraid to trust precisely because it feels real.
Just as Josie begins to believe she might finally be building a life beyond Thomas, the past refuses to stay behind her.
Messages arrive that shouldn't. Someone seems to know where she's been and who she's with. A restraining order offers less comfort when Thomas begins appearing at the edges of the life Josie thought he could no longer reach. Then his attention shifts toward Lena, turning a painful history into something far more immediate.
As affection deepens and danger moves closer, Josie must learn the difference between fear that protects her and fear that still belongs to Thomas. Trusting Lena means allowing herself to be seen again, but it also means accepting that the life she is building may now be exactly what Thomas is determined to invade.
Josie escaped him once.
Now she has something new to lose.
And Thomas has never been good at accepting no.
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