• Book titled 'O Volume Two' by Ruby Scott with a gold letter 'O' on a black cover.
  • Illustrations of women's faces with their names above them, titled 'The O Women'.
  • Black and white sketches of four women's faces with labeled names on a white background
  • Black and white illustrations of four women with their names below on a white background
  • O fine art poster hanging, lesbian romance art by Ruby Scott
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O: Volume Two - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Paperback)

O: Volume Two - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Paperback)

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Eight women. Eight worlds. The moment desire stops pretending.

Bestselling lesbian author Ruby Scott drew thirty-four women in their most intimate moments. Volume One named the first eight. Here are the next, paired with the original ink portraits that began them.

Last year I sat down with a pen and started drawing women. O.

Thirty-four ink portraits in all, every one of them caught in private, every one a stranger I'd somehow already met.

So I asked the women who read my books to name them, and to tell me who she was before the ink met her skin.

This volume is the next eight. Eight erotic lesbian stories about women in the unguarded moment they stop managing their desire, and find themselves gloriously alive.

I drew them. You named them. They did the rest.

Volume Two of four.

INSIDE VOLUME TWO

Anna. A French sous-chef thirty floors above Bangkok who has spent fourteen months wanting the head chef who hired her, on the last night before everything between them changes.

Dani. A football captain and the twenty-two-year-old who broke the line in the seventy-eighth minute and scored, held back in an empty changing room for a row that was never only about the game.

Aubrey. A second-hand bookshop ten steps below a Dublin street, the woman who runs it, and the reader who finally followed the arrow down.

Emmanuelle. A New York firefighter who waits for her moment to pose her body in front of fourteen strangers, in a Tribeca gallery.

Margot. Occupied France, a borrowed cottage at the edge of a silent village, and two women who hid their bicycles in the dark and stopped deciding not to want each other.

Eden. A film set on day nineteen of a twenty-six day shoot, an actress cast for the first time on merit, and the director whose resistance broke.

Genevieve. A gallery owner on Cathedral Street who can read anyone the moment the door closes, and the one woman in front of the Carrow drawing she cannot leave alone.

Agatha. A Benedictine abbess on a wind-battered Mediterranean island, a letter locked over her heart since Lauds, and the choice that is the size of the rest of her life.

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE

  • Slow burn to high heat
  • Workplace and forbidden desire
  • Age-gap encounters
  • Second-chance and reunion tension
  • Forbidden love under occupation
  • Historical and international settings
  • Power-dynamic encounters
  • Sapphic D/s and light BDSM
  • Faith, restraint, and longing
  • Character-driven literary erotica

O: Volume Two is the second of four illustrated erotic lesbian anthologies from bestselling author Ruby Scott. There are eighteen more women waiting.

If you have read the Awakening of Desire series and wanted to know what Ruby Scott can do in shorter form, O is the answer.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The portraits paired with the stories make this feel like something private you weren't supposed to find. I read the whole thing in one sitting and immediately wanted Volume Three."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Erotica that actually understands restraint. Every one of these women is real before she's anything else, and that's what makes the heat land the way it does. Devastating in the best way."

Continue the O Collection

O: Volume Two is the second of four illustrated sapphic anthologies. Volumes Three and Four will follow as the remaining eighteen portraits find their names and their stories. The signed prints of every woman in the collection are available as individual fine art prints by request, exclusive to newsletter subscribers for only £19.99. Email me at Ruby@Rubyscott.com with the name of the woman you desire.

More lesbian romance by Ruby Scott

If you enjoy steamy lesbian romance and emotionally intense relationships, you may also love:

  • Awakening of Desire series — a bestselling erotic lesbian romance series exploring dominance, submission, slow burn desire, power exchange, and emotionally intense relationships between women
  • The Healing Hearts series — emotionally rich slow burn sapphic romance with strong women, found family, deep emotional healing, and beautifully earned heat

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I came for the heat and stayed for the heartbreak. Emmanuelle behind that screen, waiting twenty-eight days for two hours, I felt that in my chest. Nobody writes wanting like Ruby Scott."

Tell Me More

A year ago I sat down with a pen and drew thirty-four women.
I didn't plan them. They arrived one at a time, each caught in a moment she hadn't arranged her face for, every one a stranger I somehow already knew. When I'd finished I had thirty-four faces and no idea who any of them were.
So I asked you. The women who read my books named them, and told me who each one was before the ink met her skin.
Volume One was the first eight. This is the next.
Eight women in the single unguarded moment they stop managing their desire and let themselves be known. A kitchen after the last cover. A changing room with the door held shut. A cottage at the dark edge of an occupied village. An abbey in a winter wind. Different worlds, one threshold, and the same step across it.
I drew them. You named them. They did the rest.
The portraits are here, printed beside their stories, exactly as they came to me.
Turn the page and meet them.
Ruby x

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**O: Volume Two** gathers eight erotic sapphic short stories, each built from an original ink portrait drawn by bestselling author Ruby Scott and named by the women who read her books. A French sous-chef in an empty Bangkok kitchen, a football captain and the player she holds back after the whistle, a reader who follows an arrow down into a Dublin basement bookshop, a firefighter who waits twenty-eight days for two hours under a sculptor's hands, two women of the Resistance in a borrowed cottage at the dark edge of an occupied village, an actress and the director who summons her after wrap, a gallery owner undone by the one woman she cannot read, and an abbess facing a choice the size of the rest of her life. Eight women, eight worlds, and the single unguarded moment each stops managing her desire and lets herself be known. Atmospheric, literary, and unapologetically erotic, with every portrait printed beside its story. Volume Two of four.

Themes and Tropes

Erotic sapphic short fiction
Illustrated anthology
Workplace desire
Forbidden attraction
Power-dynamic encounters
Age-gap relationships
Forbidden love under occupation
Sports romance
Faith and longing
Historical settings
International / global locations
Reader-collaboration project
Original ink art
Character-driven sapphic erotica
Literary erotica

Chapter One Look Inside

Anna
The last order leaves the pass at ten forty and I do not look up.
I am the only person in this kitchen who knows what tonight is. I knew it as I plated the final khao niao mamuang while Bailey stood three feet from me at the pass with the well-versed version of not-looking she has spent fourteen months perfecting. I have known it since my first week in her brigade, when she walked past my station after a ninety-cover Friday and said, without inflection, nice work tonight, Moreau, and I went home to my apartment on Sukhumvit and lay on top of the sheets in the dark and understood I had a problem I would not solve by leaving. Not this time.
Bailey has consumed my thoughts in a way no other woman ever has, or perhaps ever will. I have lived inside that fact since I walked into her kitchen. To have her now is everything.
The brigade leaves after service in a slower procession than I'd have liked. Line cooks first, with flat exhausted goodbyes, then prep cooks after, slower…

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