This Was Not a Double Date

Rachel Kim agreed to dinner with friends.

That was all.

Four adults. One restaurant. Completely normal.

Unfortunately, everyone else seems to think it's a double date.

Including Elena Morales.

Which is particularly inconvenient because Rachel has spent the last eighteen months insisting she absolutely does not have a crush on Elena.

Rachel is thirty-nine, happily single, extremely good at organizing complicated things, and perfectly capable of distinguishing friendship from romance. She has dated men. She has never dated a woman. And one suspiciously well-planned dinner does not require her to reconsider anything about herself.

Probably.

But then Elena admits she knew they were being set up.

A canceled gallery date makes Rachel unexpectedly jealous.

One drink turns into dinner.

And Rachel begins to wonder whether several things she has confidently classified as friendship, admiration, or completely normal observation might require...reclassification.

Elena has liked Rachel for months. But she has no interest in becoming someone's experiment. If Rachel wants to figure out whether she might be attracted to women, that's Rachel's journey.

If Rachel wants Elena, however?

That's a different conversation.

Now Rachel has to do something considerably more terrifying than discovering something new about herself.

She has to stop arguing about what everything is called long enough to admit what she wants.

This Was Not a Double Date is a warm, witty LGBTQ+ romantic comedy about friends-to-lovers, a later-in-life bisexual awakening, meddling best friends, inconvenient feelings, and two grown women discovering that sometimes the hardest part of falling in love is admitting you already have.

Part of the Best Laid Plans series. Each novel features a complete romantic story and can be read as a standalone.