O: Volume One by Ruby Scott

Description

O: Volume One by Ruby Scott is a bold, intimate, and beautifully crafted illustrated sapphic anthology pairing original ink portraits with emotionally charged lesbian short fiction. This paperback collection gathers the first eight stories from bestselling author Ruby Scott’s ambitious four-volume project exploring desire, vulnerability, identity, and the private moments when women allow themselves to truly want.

Inspired by a series of hand-drawn portraits, each story unfolds around a different woman caught in a transformative moment of longing, connection, or emotional awakening. From a television anchor secretly leaving the side door unlocked for a younger colleague to a lonely ophthalmologist in Berlin confronting desire within a carefully structured marriage, these stories span continents, professions, generations, and emotional landscapes.

Set everywhere from 1920s India and Bangkok high-rises to combat zones, Pacific Northwest islands, and New Orleans bars, O: Volume One blends slow-burn attraction, forbidden desire, emotional intimacy, and high-heat sapphic romance with literary atmosphere and character depth. Ruby Scott’s storytelling explores not just erotic connection, but the emotional tension beneath it: loneliness, self-discovery, risk, power, tenderness, and the exhilarating danger of finally letting go.

This illustrated anthology also includes the original ink portraits that inspired each character, creating a unique fusion of visual art and queer storytelling. Featuring workplace romance, age-gap relationships, first-time sapphic experiences, non-binary love interests, and light BDSM themes, O: Volume One offers a diverse and emotionally rich collection perfect for readers seeking sophisticated sapphic fiction with both sensuality and substance.

Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9798235198418