She asked her best friend for a practice run. She didn’t know she was playing with a nine-year secret.Florist Tilly Vane is used to over-delivering. When she lands the most ambitious wedding installation of her career—a massive suspended floral canopy inside a historic glass conservatory—she knows she can design it. But to make the physics work, she needs the help of her best friend, Greer Halston. Greer is a stoic, hyper-competent climbing-gym owner who has never let Tilly fall.Tilly’s romantic life, however, lacks the same structural integrity. After a late-in-life sapphic awakening, she’s terrified of navigating her first date with a woman. So, she brings Greer a color-coded presentation and a wild proposal: be her "practice girlfriend."For Greer, the request is a nightmare dressed as a dream. She’s been hopelessly, secretly in love with Tilly for nine years. Agreeing to simulated dates, practice kisses, and shared beds means giving Tilly everything she’s ever wanted, but with a ticking clock attached. The rules are strict: no alcohol, no strings, and it all ends the day of the wedding.But as "practice" gives way to blistering chemistry and midnight confessions, the boundaries between rehearsal and reality blur. When the countdown runs out, Greer will have to risk her heart and tell the truth, or watch Tilly walk away to practice on someone else.The Girlfriend Tutorial is a steamy, friends-to-lovers sapphic romance featuring intense mutual pining, a chaotic creative falling for her stoic protector, and a happily-ever-after that is anything but a drill. Read more