Collection: The Healing Hearts series
Healing Hearts is a slow burn lesbian romance series for readers who want the ache before the kiss and the weight of feeling before the release.
These stories are built on proximity, restraint, and the quiet moments where something shifts without anyone naming it yet. Attraction grows slowly, through shared space, guarded conversations, and the tension of wanting what feels just out of reach. The kind of wanting that lingers. The kind that changes you.
Each novel is a standalone slow burn lesbian romance love story, centred on women who are competent, complicated, and emotionally contained until they aren’t. Careers matter. Boundaries matter. So does the risk of letting someone see beneath the surface. Love in this series is not rushed or convenient. It is chosen.
Healing Hearts is character-driven lesbian fiction that leans into patience, emotional intimacy, and connection that feels earned. These are romances where control softens into trust, where desire builds quietly until it can no longer be ignored, and where the payoff lands with impact because you have waited for it.
The Healing Hearts series by Ruby Scott. Slow burn sapphic romance set in Colorado mountain country. Rescuing Hearts (book one) was a 2023 GCLS Goldie Award finalist. Four books to date: Rescuing Hearts, Curious Hearts, Wild Hearts, and Exposed Hearts. Each book centres a different couple in the community. Readers of Lise Gold often start here. See more comparisons on the Books Like Lise Gold and Harper Bliss page.
Begin anywhere. Stay for the slow burn.
