Honey Girl
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
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Burned out Grace Porter celebrates her doctorate by drunkenly marrying a stranger in Las Vegas. She wakes up alone with a name and a city. Months later, she boards a plane to New York to find her wife.
Yes. Honey Girl is a queer romance about Grace Porter, a Black queer astronomy PhD who wakes up in Las Vegas married to a stranger. It was widely featured on best-of LGBTQ romance lists in 2021.
Honey Girl contains some on-page intimacy but is restrained compared to many romances. Most readers rate the spice 2 to 3 out of 5. The emotional weight comes more from mental health themes than physical content.
Honey Girl contains some on-page intimacy but is restrained compared to many romances. Most readers rate the spice 2 to 3 out of 5. The emotional weight comes more from mental health themes than physical content.
Honey Girl was written by Morgan Rogers, published in 2021 by Harlequin Enterprises ULC.
Honey Girl is 293 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Honey Girl takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Honey Girl is a standalone novel by Morgan Rogers, not part of a series.
Honey Girl is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.