If You Leave

If You Leave is a hauntingly beautiful sapphic coming-of-age romance about first love, ambition, distance, and the quiet heartbreak of becoming someone new.
Lennox Vale leaves her fading hometown of Bellmere for an elite university hundreds of miles away, carrying the weight of scholarship dreams, intellectual hunger, and a promise to the girl she loves: nothing changes. Back home, Corinne Hale buries herself in engines, grease-stained notebooks, and the relentless routines of a life that suddenly feels too small without Lennox beside her.
At first, late-night calls and shared rituals keep their relationship alive. But as Lennox is pulled into a dazzling world of debate teams, political theory, campus journalism, and thrilling new possibilities, Corinne begins confronting opportunities of her own—ones that could change the trajectory of her future forever.
Between whispered midnight confessions, unspoken fears, growing ambitions, and the unbearable tension between loyalty and self-discovery, the distance between them slowly transforms into something neither girl knows how to name.
Tender, emotionally layered, and devastatingly authentic, If You Leave is a deeply immersive LGBTQ+ romance about identity, longing, class, ambition, and the painful truth that love alone is not always enough to keep two people from growing apart.