Come Home to My Heart

Riley Redgate

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Union Square & Co.
01 September 2025

General fiction (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: sexuality & relationships (Children's&YA); Social issues: religious issues (Children's&YA)

Gorgeous in its sincerity and its precision

in its raw, honest depiction of what it feels like to be a gay teen in a world that says that you don't deserve a home.

Gloria Forman and Xia Harper go to the same high school in a small South Carolina town, but they couldn't be more different. While Gloria is part of the popular, Christian crowd, Xia sleeps through class, antagonises anyone who dares talk to her, and buries herself in books that help her pretend she's somewhere else

anywhere that being lesbian wouldn't be a waking nightmare.

When the two form an accidental friendship, they begin noticing each other in ways they promised themselves they'd avoid. After all, Xia's isolation is self-imposed for a reason, and the last thing Gloria needs is more upheaval, especially after her parents kicked her out of the house for being gay. Ever since, she has spent her nights under the stage in the school auditorium and her days terrified of being discovered.

Xia just wants to keep her head down until the end of senior year. Gloria just wants to keep her living situation quiet until her parents come around. But as their feelings for each other intensify and the truths they've hidden work their way to the surface, what they truly want will change forever.

By: Riley Redgate
Imprint: Union Square & Co.
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781454957119
ISBN 10: 1454957115
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Recommended Age: From 14 to 99 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Riley Redgate is the author of four YA novels, including Seven Ways We Lie and Alone Out Here. Her fifth YA novel, Look No Further, was published under her real name, Rioghnach Robinson, and was co-written with her sister, Siofra Robinson. Riley grew up in NorthCarolina and now lives in Chicago.

Reviews for Come Home to My Heart

""Riley Redgate writes with a master storyteller’s hand about the intersecting struggles of family, faith, and queer love in the rural South. This lyrical, moving book gripped my heart from the opening page and still hasn’t let go. It never will."" —Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of The Serpent King

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Come Home to My Heart

Riley Redgate

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