O: Volume Two - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Signed Ebook)
O: Volume Two - Erotic Lesbian Short Stories — An Illustrated Sapphic Anthology (Signed Ebook)
Eight women. Eight worlds. The moment desire stops pretending.
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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
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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."
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Full Description
Full Description
**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
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
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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Volume Two is just as amazing as Volume One! Eight new women, eight new perfectly crafted worlds that draw you in instantly. You can't help but connect to these women, sometimes in ways that feel like a shocking revelation and othertimes in ways that feel like a gentle recognition. The heat is scorching, the emotions are raw, and the desire so intense it will leave you wrecked as only the best stories do. Once again Ruby has taken a collection of small details inspired by readers and made absolute magic happen, crafting characters and worlds so vivid and alive they walk right off the page and straight into your heart.
Marisa... ❤️
I don't even know what to say.
*'A gentle recognition'* and *'a shocking revelation'*... those words honestly mean so much to me because that's exactly what I hope these stories can be. Every woman in this collection was inspired by the little pieces of people who trust me with their thoughts, memories, and dreams, so knowing they felt real enough to walk straight into your heart is the greatest compliment I could ever receive.
Thank you for seeing the emotion beneath the heat, and for embracing every one of these women so wholeheartedly. Reviews like yours remind me why I write.
Thank you. ❤️
I’m calling it, Ruby Scott is an absolute genius. I enjoy a short story, but my preference is always a novel that delivers a character you can fully connect with. And then I picked up O Volume Two, having already devoured Volume One. That is now 16 women that I have not only connected with but feel like I know them … inside and out ;)
Ruby Scott’s writing is all about character, heart and heat that is off the charts. The tension that is often built across chapters and chapters of a book, Ruby Scott achieves in a few pages and you are immediately immersed in these snippets of these women’s life’s.
Volume One was a teaser, Volume 2 not only lived up to expectations it exceeded them.
Wow... thank you so much. ❤️
Reading this genuinely made me smile. One of the biggest compliments I can receive is hearing that readers feel they've truly connected with these women, especially in such a short space of time. That's always been my goal with *O* – to create characters who feel real, unforgettable, and leave you wanting more.
I'm absolutely thrilled that *Volume Two* not only lived up to your expectations after *Volume One*, but exceeded them. Thank you for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful review and for coming along on this journey with all sixteen women (so far 😉).
Your support means more than you know.
❤️ Ruby x
“The O Collection - Volume One” was brilliant and “Volume Two” is just as brilliant, if not better and telling yourself “just one more chapter” really won’t work!
Each story and every sentence is crafted with Ruby’s usual care and attention to detail and pulls you deeper into the characters world with every turn of the page. The spicy times are ‘Pepper X’ hot🌶️which in itself makes this well worth reading, but it is the connections made, the intimate anticipation woven into the moments before that really sets the heart racing. There were several times, in a few of the stories, where I paused to take a breath before reading any further, not just because it was hot🥵, but because those moments in those stories resonate deeply. Ruby has an uncanny ability to write about a location, a person or a feeling that stirs something familiar in you and make you forget everything outside and immerse you in that emotion and that moment in time. To have the drawing that shows the culmination of the characters physical desire and emotional vulnerability accompany each story is a perfect touch and the personalised signature makes it extra special. I’m so excited to see what Volume Three brings🥰.
Lor... what a review. ❤️
I honestly don't know what to say other than thank you.
Reading that you had to stop and take a breath—not just because of the heat, but because the emotion resonated with you—is probably one of the greatest compliments I could receive. That's exactly why I write the way I do. The intimacy only matters because of everything that comes before it.
I'm also so happy you loved the artwork. I wanted each illustration to feel like the perfect ending to each woman's journey, so knowing it added to the experience means so much.
And as for hijacking your holiday... I'll happily take the blame for that one! 😂
Thank you for always taking the time to write such thoughtful reviews, Lor. Your support, your kindness, and the way you truly *see* these stories means more than you'll ever know.
Now... no pressure at all on me for Volume Three! 😅❤️
O Volume 2 is every bit as brilliant as Volume 1. I devoured it in two sittings, and once again Ruby Scott reminded me just how glorious women loving women truly are. Whatever shape that love takes, every story feels authentic, emotional, and impossible to put down.
And yes… Ruby Scott can write erotica! 🔥 The chemistry is off the charts, but what I love most is that every intimate scene deepens the characters rather than simply turning up the heat. She has an incredible gift for building tension, writing women who are both fierce and vulnerable, and emotionally wrecking readers in the process. 😅
I adore this series… the stories, the gorgeous hand-drawn character portraits, all of it. Bring on Volume 3!
Oh, and Genevieve’s story? Absolute FIRE. 🔥
This book has also had me googling flights for a girls’ weekend in Dublin, regretting not joining the women’s football team at uni, and checking what art exhibitions are on locally. Ruby Scott, I blame you entirely. 😂
This is exactly the kind of review that makes all those months of writing worthwhile. ❤️
Thank you so much. I love that every story felt authentic to you, and that the romance and intimacy worked together rather than one overshadowing the other. That's always my goal.
And I'm absolutely taking full responsibility for the Dublin flights, the football regrets, and the sudden interest in art exhibitions. 😂 I have a feeling Volume Three won't help matters either...
O Volume 2 is every bit as brilliant as Volume 1. I devoured it in two sittings, and once again Ruby Scott reminded me just how glorious women loving women truly are. Whatever shape that love takes, every story feels authentic, emotional, and impossible to put down.
And yes… Ruby Scott can write erotica! 🔥 The chemistry is off the charts, but what I love most is that every intimate scene deepens the characters rather than simply turning up the heat. She has an incredible gift for building tension, writing women who are both fierce and vulnerable, and emotionally wrecking readers in the process. 😅
I adore this series… the stories, the gorgeous hand-drawn character portraits, all of it. Bring on Volume 3!
Oh, and Genevieve’s story? Absolute FIRE. 🔥
This book has also had me googling flights for a girls’ weekend in Dublin, regretting not joining the women’s football team at uni, and checking what art exhibitions are on locally. Ruby Scott, I blame you entirely. 😂
I don't think there's a better compliment than a book making someone want to get out and live a little more. ❤️
Thank you so much. I poured so much of myself into these women, so hearing that you found every story authentic, emotional, and impossible to put down means the world to me.
And yes... Genevieve knew exactly what she was doing. 😏🔥 Thank you for such a wonderful review, and thank you for being part of this journey with me.
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