Show Me the Scary Part

Whitney Delaney was raised to be flawless.

In a family obsessed with reputation, control, and perfection, mistakes aren’t forgiven; they’re erased. So when sixteen-year-old Whitney discovers she’s pregnant, she does the only thing she’s ever known how to do: She hides it. She hides the swelling. She hides the fear. She hides the life growing inside her.

Until the day she goes into labor alone in her high school locker room.

Nadine Thornton wasn’t supposed to be part of Whitney’s story. Confident, outspoken, and unapologetically herself, Nadine lives in a world Whitney has only ever watched from the sidelines. But when she finds Whitney moments after giving birth in secret, Nadine makes a choice that will change both of their lives. She refuses to walk away.

What begins as an act of protection becomes something deeper as they navigate young motherhood, family manipulation, public judgment, and the terrifying process of building a life from scratch. But loving Whitney comes with its own cost. Nadine loves hard, fiercely, selflessly, sometimes so much that she forgets herself in the process.

Spanning the years from late adolescence into adulthood, Show Me the Scary Part is a sweeping sapphic romance about defying control, fighting for your child, and learning that the scariest part of love isn’t falling – It’s choosing to stay.