Forbidden

Sydnei Davis came to Columbia to stay a good girl. Pressed blouses, cross necklace, color-coded notes, a smile practiced enough to fool her parents — and almost herself. Then Ian taught her she didn't have to choose between faith and the truth her body had been whispering for twenty years. And then she found Forbidden. And Amira.

A literary, slow-burn queer romance about a Black Christian woman learning the language of her own desire — and the older woman whose restraint reads like reverence. Sensual, soul-searching, devastatingly tender.