The Girl Effect

Romance for older Young Adults/New Adults (YA/NA) with lesbian and LGBTI themes. Being straight, when your best friends aren't, turns out to be boring. Jessie lived happily with Paul for three years ("I guess. Everyone's happy enough we're together, though, to be honest, I'd expected happiness to feel better than this. I was the first of us girls to get married after school. Maybe I should have waited."). Paul walks out on Jessie, Christmas Eve ("He knocked our Christmas Tree over too and didn't tidy up!"). Ally is lesbian, but Jessie's best friend since school, and has a fun life ("Nothing is ever a problem"), but is worried about life after twenty ("I'm old! No teenager anymore."). Jessie's world has fallen apart, with Paul gone. She turns to Ally, her best friend, for support. Ally takes her to Ubud, Bali, for a break ("I'm envious of Ally, she's always happy. When they handed out the key to life, I didn't get mine."). In Bali, they become lesbian lovers. ("I'd always known Ally was gay, but never, ever, imagined me like that, but being with her, something changed in me. Ally's world was like seeing in color for the first time."). Ally's ex- Kirsty wants her back ("It's just a fling. Jessie is straight really."). Then Paul wants Jessie back ("Great news, eh?"). What is she to do? A second chance with Paul, or a first chance with Ally? Paul is dying to find out.