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* TraumaButton: References to gun violence can still affect Emily due to the shooting which killed her father while wounding her mother and sister. Her older sister Sutton also panics on seeing TV footage of the {{assassination attempt}} which Connie suffers, as it's a reminder for her.
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* SecretRelationship: Connie and Emily keep the fact they're dating secret at first, as Connie's being US President it would put them in the public idea invariably. They soon grow tired of this however, with both deciding it's better to just be open on the fact rather than hiding.
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* SecretRelationship: Connie and Emily keep the fact they're dating secret at first, as Connie's being US President it would put them in the public idea view invariably. They soon grow tired of this however, with both deciding it's better to just be open on the fact rather than hiding.
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Written by Scottish author Lola Keeley, it was published in October 2022.
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* NoBisexuals: Connie reacts with annoyance when Senator Miriam Randolph criticizes her on TV, asking if the US needs a lesbian occupying the White House, since she's bisexual (which is public knowledge) and even this minor detail is something Randolph can't get right.
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* NoBisexuals: Connie reacts with annoyance when Senator Miriam Randolph criticizes her on TV, asking if the US needs a lesbian occupying the White House, since she's bisexual (which is public knowledge) and even this minor detail is something one that Randolph can't get right.
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* GayConservative: Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, comes from a conversative, wealthy family and shares their politics. Her mother the Republican Senate majority leader in fact. This was one reason Emily and she broke up, especially due to their opposing views on guns (Emily's parents were murdered with a legally purchased one, so she's in favor of more gun control; Brooke understands this but disagrees).
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* GayConservative: Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, comes from a conversative, wealthy family and shares their politics. Her mother is the Republican Senate majority leader in fact. This was one reason Emily and she broke up, especially due to their opposing views on guns (Emily's parents were murdered with a legally purchased one, so she's in favor of more gun control; Brooke understands this but disagrees).
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* FirstKiss: Connie kisses Emily passionately while they're riding home together after they've gone on their first date together, cementing the attraction which they have for each other.
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* FirstKiss: Connie kisses Emily passionately while they're riding home together after they've gone on their first date together, cementing the attraction which they have for each other.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Connie and Emily quickly patch things up, after Connie's survival from her {{assination attempt}}, while committing to getting every campaign promise fulfilled. At the end, they're still happily together after Connie's reelection, while Emily is basically living in the White House now with her, with it being made clear they'll be married soon too.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Connie and Emily quickly patch things up, after Connie's survival from her {{assination {{assassination attempt}}, while committing to getting every campaign promise fulfilled. At the end, they're still happily together after Connie's reelection, been reelected later, while Emily is basically living in the White House now with her, with it being made clear they'll be married soon too.]]
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* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears too.
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* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa is a lesbian, with her wife a wife, Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears too.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Among the supporting characters, three are LGBT+ and black as well. Rebecca and Jill are lesbians; Elliot is nonbinary.
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* ButchLesbian: {{Downplayed}} by Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents. She gets described as having a large build while she wears flannel while she's not in her duty clothes, while she's a lesbian as well. As a supporting character though she doesn't get described much further or focused on.
* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears as well.
* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears as well.
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* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appearsas well. too.
* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears
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* AssassinationAttempt: Connie is the victim of one while she's going to sign the gun bill into law at the US Capitol. [[spoiler:She's shot, but survives, but two people are killed, and others wounded.]]
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* AssassinationAttempt: Connie is the victim of one while she's going to sign the gun bill into law at the US Capitol. [[spoiler:She's shot, but survives, but survives. However, two people are killed, and others wounded.]]
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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: [[spoiler:The men who attempt to kill Connie are described as members of violent antigovernment groups and fanatical about gun rights, which is the motive for their attack since she was about to sign a bill into law that bans some types of guns.]]
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Dr. Emily Lawrence, a top cardiologist, begins to treat US President Connie Calvin's son Zach for his heart condition. As a result, she meets Connie and they grow close, starting a relationship. However, both must navigate fraught politics given Connie's position and the homophobia of the American right, even as they fall in love.
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* AgeGapRomance: Connie is fifty, while Emily's about thirty seven when they begin dating.
* AlliterativeName: Connie Calvin, the US President.
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Sutton, Emily's sister, is a lesbian like her and she chooses to have a baby with her wife Rebecca. Emily is overjoyed and ecstatic for them.
* AssassinationAttempt: Connie is the victim of one while she's going to sign the gun bill into law at the US Capitol. [[spoiler:She's shot, but survives, but two people are killed, and others wounded.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: Emily bluffs Senator Reynolds saying she'd reveal the fact she wasn't shot but had a heart attack if she won't agree not to attack Connie as a result of their relationship. Given her strict adherence to medical ethics, Emily wouldn't really do this, but Reynolds buys the threat and caves.
* ButchLesbian: {{Downplayed}} by Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents. She gets described as having a large build while she wears flannel while she's not in her duty clothes, while she's a lesbian as well. As a supporting character though she doesn't get described much further or focused on.
* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears as well.
* DanceOfRomance: Connie and Emily reveal their relationship ahead of the press release which Connie's staff puts out by dancing together publicly while at a dinner, kissing at the end.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Emily's father was murdered and her mother wounded along with her sister in a shooting which she had witnessed.
* DisappearedDad: Robert Calvin, the President's husband, died prior to the events of the book, which leaves her a widow and single mother with their son Zach.
* DisappointedInYou: Emily tells Connie this on learning that she gave up passing universal healthcare so that automatic weapons will be banned, stopping mass shootings she hopes. She feels certain that Connie really could get both of them passed, but won't spend the political capital.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Connie and Emily quickly patch things up, after Connie's survival from her {{assination attempt}}, while committing to getting every campaign promise fulfilled. At the end, they're still happily together after Connie's reelection, while Emily is basically living in the White House now with her, with it being made clear they'll be married soon too.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Connie Calvin, the US President, lets Emily call her by her first name after they meet, which is the first step in them becoming closer.
* FirstKiss: Connie kisses Emily passionately while they're riding home together after they've gone on their first date together, cementing the attraction which they have for each other.
* GayConservative: Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, comes from a conversative, wealthy family and shares their politics. Her mother the Republican Senate majority leader in fact. This was one reason Emily and she broke up, especially due to their opposing views on guns (Emily's parents were murdered with a legally purchased one, so she's in favor of more gun control; Brooke understands this but disagrees).
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The right-wing media and Republicans generally in the book all attack Connie for openly seeing another woman, Emily, after the two reveal it.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Even though Emily's a lesbian and makes no secret about it, her bodyguard Caleb insists on flirting toward her nonetheless, seeing this as a personality quirk his charm can just overcome, which she's annoyed by.
* LipstickLesbian: Emily and Connie are both feminine women who like dressing up in beautiful clothes to go out on the town together while they're dating. The same goes for Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend. Connie is a lipstick bisexual however, having previously been married to a man she loved.
* LoveConfession: Emily tells Connie she loves her right before temporarily ending their relationship. Connie reciprocates soon after when they get back together while at a press conference.
MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Connie and Emily have sex the second time in a room of the White House, and more specifically while against the table or on the couch.
* MileHighClub: [[spoiler:The book ends with Emily and Connie going off to have sex on Air Force One while in Connie's bedroom on there.]]
* NoBisexuals: Connie reacts with annoyance when Senator Miriam Randolph criticizes her on TV, asking if the US needs a lesbian occupying the White House, since she's bisexual (which is public knowledge) and even this minor detail is something Randolph can't get right.
* NoPartyGiven: Averted almost immediately, as Connie Calvin is a Democrat explicitly (though her policies would give that away very quickly). Similarly, supporting characters are also shown to be Democrats or Republicans explicitly.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Connie is never called Constance by her loved ones, and it's only mentioned to be her given name a couple times.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: The story's co-protagonist is Constance “Connie” Calvin, the first female US President who's also bisexual, juggling the Presidency, parenting her son (who has a heart condition too) while a widow and beginning to date his doctor (a woman) as she's facing the next Presidential election.
* ParentalAbandonment: Emily's parents were both murdered during an assassination attempt on her mother, a Supreme Court nominee.
* RotatingProtagonist: Emily and Connie are co-protagonists; in the book, the focus shifts between them.
* SecondActBreakup: Emily temporarily breaks up with Connie toward the end of the book due to her compromising with the Republicans so she can ban certain automatic weapons in hopes of preventing mass shootings, in return for giving up universal healthcare. Given she's a doctor, Emily feels very strongly about the latter (but the former too, as her parents were shot dead).
* SecretRelationship: Connie and Emily keep the fact they're dating secret at first, as Connie's being US President it would put them in the public idea invariably. They soon grow tired of this however, with both deciding it's better to just be open on the fact rather than hiding.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Emily and Sutton still have lingering trauma due to the shooting which they survived, but their father didn't. Sutton and their mother had been wounded in it too.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Zach is described as looking like a little clone of his father Robert more than once, which his mother Connie finds painful somewhat since Robert's dead.
* SwitchingPOV: The book shows things alternately from Emily and Connie's views.
* TraumaButton: References to gun violence can still affect Emily due to the shooting which killed her father while wounding her mother and sister. Her older sister Sutton also panics on seeing TV footage of the {{assassination attempt}} which Connie suffers, as it's a reminder for her.
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Dr. Emily Lawrence, a top cardiologist, begins to treat US President Connie Calvin's son Zach for his heart condition. As a result, she meets Connie and they grow close, starting a relationship. However, both must navigate fraught politics given Connie's position and the homophobia of the American right, even as they fall in love.
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* AgeGapRomance: Connie is fifty, while Emily's about thirty seven when they begin dating.
* AlliterativeName: Connie Calvin, the US President.
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Sutton, Emily's sister, is a lesbian like her and she chooses to have a baby with her wife Rebecca. Emily is overjoyed and ecstatic for them.
* AssassinationAttempt: Connie is the victim of one while she's going to sign the gun bill into law at the US Capitol. [[spoiler:She's shot, but survives, but two people are killed, and others wounded.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: Emily bluffs Senator Reynolds saying she'd reveal the fact she wasn't shot but had a heart attack if she won't agree not to attack Connie as a result of their relationship. Given her strict adherence to medical ethics, Emily wouldn't really do this, but Reynolds buys the threat and caves.
* ButchLesbian: {{Downplayed}} by Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents. She gets described as having a large build while she wears flannel while she's not in her duty clothes, while she's a lesbian as well. As a supporting character though she doesn't get described much further or focused on.
* CastFullOfGay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) isa lesbian, with her wife Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a ButchLesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears as well.
* DanceOfRomance: Connie and Emily reveal their relationship ahead of the press release which Connie's staff puts out by dancing together publicly while at a dinner, kissing at the end.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Emily's father was murdered and her mother wounded along with her sister in a shooting which she had witnessed.
* DisappearedDad: Robert Calvin, the President's husband, died prior to the events of the book, which leaves her a widow and single mother with their son Zach.
* DisappointedInYou: Emily tells Connie this on learning that she gave up passing universal healthcare so that automatic weapons will be banned, stopping mass shootings she hopes. She feels certain that Connie really could get both of them passed, but won't spend the political capital.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Connie and Emily quickly patch things up, after Connie's survival from her {{assination attempt}}, while committing to getting every campaign promise fulfilled. At the end, they're still happily together after Connie's reelection, while Emily is basically living in the White House now with her, with it being made clear they'll be married soon too.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Connie Calvin, the US President, lets Emily call her by her first name after they meet, which is the first step in them becoming closer.
* FirstKiss: Connie kisses Emily passionately while they're riding home together after they've gone on their first date together, cementing the attraction which they have for each other.
* GayConservative: Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, comes from a conversative, wealthy family and shares their politics. Her mother the Republican Senate majority leader in fact. This was one reason Emily and she broke up, especially due to their opposing views on guns (Emily's parents were murdered with a legally purchased one, so she's in favor of more gun control; Brooke understands this but disagrees).
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The right-wing media and Republicans generally in the book all attack Connie for openly seeing another woman, Emily, after the two reveal it.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Even though Emily's a lesbian and makes no secret about it, her bodyguard Caleb insists on flirting toward her nonetheless, seeing this as a personality quirk his charm can just overcome, which she's annoyed by.
* LipstickLesbian: Emily and Connie are both feminine women who like dressing up in beautiful clothes to go out on the town together while they're dating. The same goes for Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend. Connie is a lipstick bisexual however, having previously been married to a man she loved.
* LoveConfession: Emily tells Connie she loves her right before temporarily ending their relationship. Connie reciprocates soon after when they get back together while at a press conference.
MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Connie and Emily have sex the second time in a room of the White House, and more specifically while against the table or on the couch.
* MileHighClub: [[spoiler:The book ends with Emily and Connie going off to have sex on Air Force One while in Connie's bedroom on there.]]
* NoBisexuals: Connie reacts with annoyance when Senator Miriam Randolph criticizes her on TV, asking if the US needs a lesbian occupying the White House, since she's bisexual (which is public knowledge) and even this minor detail is something Randolph can't get right.
* NoPartyGiven: Averted almost immediately, as Connie Calvin is a Democrat explicitly (though her policies would give that away very quickly). Similarly, supporting characters are also shown to be Democrats or Republicans explicitly.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Connie is never called Constance by her loved ones, and it's only mentioned to be her given name a couple times.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: The story's co-protagonist is Constance “Connie” Calvin, the first female US President who's also bisexual, juggling the Presidency, parenting her son (who has a heart condition too) while a widow and beginning to date his doctor (a woman) as she's facing the next Presidential election.
* ParentalAbandonment: Emily's parents were both murdered during an assassination attempt on her mother, a Supreme Court nominee.
* RotatingProtagonist: Emily and Connie are co-protagonists; in the book, the focus shifts between them.
* SecondActBreakup: Emily temporarily breaks up with Connie toward the end of the book due to her compromising with the Republicans so she can ban certain automatic weapons in hopes of preventing mass shootings, in return for giving up universal healthcare. Given she's a doctor, Emily feels very strongly about the latter (but the former too, as her parents were shot dead).
* SecretRelationship: Connie and Emily keep the fact they're dating secret at first, as Connie's being US President it would put them in the public idea invariably. They soon grow tired of this however, with both deciding it's better to just be open on the fact rather than hiding.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Emily and Sutton still have lingering trauma due to the shooting which they survived, but their father didn't. Sutton and their mother had been wounded in it too.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Zach is described as looking like a little clone of his father Robert more than once, which his mother Connie finds painful somewhat since Robert's dead.
* SwitchingPOV: The book shows things alternately from Emily and Connie's views.
* TraumaButton: References to gun violence can still affect Emily due to the shooting which killed her father while wounding her mother and sister. Her older sister Sutton also panics on seeing TV footage of the {{assassination attempt}} which Connie suffers, as it's a reminder for her.
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