Indigo Hayes

Indigo Hayes writes contemporary queer romance about ambitious women, complicated desire, chosen family, and the exhilarating risk of being truly known. Her stories pair emotional depth with unapologetic heat, following women who build full lives—and find love on their own terms.

In Our Own Light Series

When the Gallery Closes brings professional rivals Iris and Camille together after hours, where artistic ambition, old wounds, and undeniable desire blur every carefully drawn line.

The Things We Build Slowly follows two women with very different ideas about permanence as they discover that love may be less about promising never to leave than choosing, day by day, to stay.

What the Camera Keeps turns years of carefully contained friendship into something impossible to edit out when a filmmaker and the attorney protecting her work finally confront what has always existed beyond the frame.

The Color of Almost reunites two former lovers for a career-defining public art commission, forcing them to confront eight years of unfinished history, unresolved desire, and everything they almost had.

Before I Call It Love is a witty, tender queer romance about a woman who wants certainty, a woman who refuses to be rushed, and the connection that teaches them both that love is worth waiting for.