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More than a Best Friend

More than a Best Friend

The Lesbian Bridgerton you didn’t know you needed

Summary

'Gives us all the top tier wit, spice, and swoons.... One to watch!' Evie Dunmore

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Love is more than just a game for two.


It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street.

Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s inherited her penchant for drinking too much and dancing ‘til dawn.

Beth and Gwen are enchanted with each other on sight. And it doesn’t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than join the husband hunt, they should set up Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly-widowed mother.

They had a fling years ago, after all…

Can Beth and Gwen find a way to defy convention and be together? And will their parents find love along the way too?

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton you never knew you needed!

Reviews

  • Gives us all the top tier wit, spice, and swoons.... One to watch!
    Evie Dunmore, USA Today bestselling author of Bringing Down the Duke

About the author

Emma R. Alban

Emma R. Alban is the author of two heart-melting (and spicy) queer, regency romances – More than a Best Friend and You're The Problem, It's You. Raised in the Hudson Valley, she now lives in Los Angeles, enjoying the eternal sunshine, ocean, and mountains. When she isn't writing books or screenplays, she can usually be found stress baking with the AC on full blast, skiing late into the spring, singing showtunes at the top of her lungs on the freeway, and reading anywhere there’s somewhere to lean.
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