Monarch

Mari Grant has avoided Amsterdam for ten years, and with good reason. It’s where their ex lives. Or at least, it’s where they disappeared when they broke their heart out of nowhere. But Amsterdam is also the home of one of Europe’s best tattoo conventions – and QISS, a very queer s.ex club – and they no longer want Lexi Williams to stop them living their life. They want to show themself – and the world – that they have moved on, even if they do find themself scrolling Lexi’s social media and discovering Lexi’s art is in a gallery just around the corner from their hotel…

Roos van Dijk is a hopeless romantic, emphasis on the hopeless because what kind of a woman pines for the ex who abandoned her, twice? She’s done all she can to try and get over Lex – thrown herself into her work running a charity for trans youth, read countless romance novels to remind herself not all partners are trash, and played around with others thanks to her favourite app K1NK – but why is it that she finds herself cycling to Lex’s latest art exhibition on a chilly autumn evening? Maybe it’s because that hopeless romantic in her somehow knows she’ll meet someone there that might help her forget Lex once and for all.

Lex Williams is back. And it’s not just because xe has run out of places to run to. Xe is back to make it up to Roos, the sweetest love xe has ever known. Since Mari, at least. Xe is back to rediscover xir life-saving muse. Xe is back to maybe, possibly stop running away from xir past once and for all. And yet that’s exactly what xe comes face-to-face with when xe gets back to Amsterdam. Because Mari is here. And Mari and Roos are not strangers. Very quickly Lex finds xemself having to confront not only xir past but also xir future and xe doesn’t know which is more terrifying…

Monarch is an FXX spicy sapphic romance with exes to enemies to lovers, grumpy x grumpy x sunshine, bi4bi4bi, all trans mcs, graphic sexual content, including k1nk, and is intended for readers aged 18 and older. While Monarch is book four in the Birds and Butterflies series it is a standalone novel. That said, it is recommended you read the Hummingbird duet before reading Monarch.