Between You and Me

Written by Ada Stone

Narrated by Ashley Lauren Rogers

Clever and romance-obsessed Elia hosts a podcast under the pseudonym Anna Belle. Offering advice on love and dating, Anna Belle tells her listeners she’s in a committed relationship. But in reality, single Elia’s gratifying streak of one-night stands leaves her pining for true romance. After an awkward encounter with cute, animated Lisa leaves Elia puzzled by her stirring feelings, Elia is rattled when Lisa writes to her podcast for dating advice.

New to the city, Lisa is a bubbly romantic at heart. Moving for her job, Lisa is thrilled to dive into a new dating scene. But after a string of awful first dates leaves her in the Seattle freeze, Lisa writes to a podcast for help. When the advice doesn’t work out, Lisa vents to Elia.

Torn between her growing feelings for Lisa and the guilt of keeping Anna Belle a secret, Elia must choose between keeping her anonymity or risk it all on her budding feelings. Or will Lisa figure out the lie before Elia has a chance come clean?
With sharp prose and a quest for love in the Emerald City, Ada Stone’s Between You and Me is a heartfelt tale about opening yourself up to the possibilities in relationships.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Shorts
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094417486

Ada Stone

Ada Stone is a queer and trans book-obsessed human from the Pacific Northwest, where they live now. They love spending quiet time among trees and mountains, listening to their favorite albums on repeat, and receiving “your holds are ready for pickup” alerts from the library.

Reviews for Between You and Me

[Natale Michaud · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Wike the narrator is named Ashley, the voice is masculine, so I'm guessing Ashley is a Trans woman. My complaint is that the reading was droll and it was hard to differentiate between characters as the voices are the same. It was hard to listen too and keep track of the story and characters.

[Jamie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I never write reviews but I noticed the other two reviews for this were about a “man reading the book” when it’s a trans woman narrator about a book with a trans character. Grow up. The book is a fine and cute short story!

[RA.Young · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Like many folks I was thrown by the male narrator for a lesbian fiction novel. They work with female narrators, I don't know who cast a guy for this but it was a terrible idea. Most lesbian don't wanna listen to guy tell a story about lesbians. Duh.

[Eva Szalma · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Why a man is narrating a lesbian story??? Ruins it