The Distance Between Teeth and Tenderness: A Dark Sapphic Romance

By D.J Ives

Loving someone when you feel everything at full volume is not gentle.
It's survival.

For some people, intimacy doesn't arrive slowly - it crashes in.
Desire feels urgent. Attachment feels terrifying. And every connection carries the threat of being abandoned, misunderstood, or wanted too much.

When two women collide under the weight of their own emotional armour, attraction becomes volatile. Boundaries blur. Control masquerades as safety. Tenderness feels just as dangerous as teeth.

The Distance Between Teeth and Tenderness is a dark, emotionally intense sapphic romance about navigating love when your nervous system is always on edge - when closeness triggers fear, and distance hurts just as much. It explores the push-pull of attachment, the hunger for reassurance, the shame after vulnerability, and the fragile repair that follows emotional rupture.

This is not a soft love story.
It is a story about loving with intensity, about wanting to stay even when every instinct tells you to run - and about the terrifying courage it takes to let tenderness win.

This novel contains, emotional volatility, and themes inspired by lived experience of Borderline Personality Disorder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQPWJDTP
• ISBN13: 9798250262132
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"