LGBTQIA+ Book Club: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R Alban

Name: LGBTQIA+ Book Club: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R Alban
Start: 2025-06-09T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-06-09T20:00:00-06:00
Location: The Community Center - TCC

Schedule

Mon Jun 09 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Community Center - TCC | Boise, ID

Join us for our monthly LGBTQIA+ book club. Please feel free to come even if you haven’t had a chance to finish the book. Group is ideal for ages 16+. Light snacks will be provided.
When: 2nd Mondays, 6:30pm-8pm, alternating virtual and in-person.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 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. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here.
Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s gotten all her flair, fun, and less-than-proper party games.
“Let’s get them together,” she says.
It doesn’t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than surrender Beth to courtship, they should set up Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead.
“It’ll be easy” she says.
There’s just…one, teeny, tiny problem. Their parents kind of seem to hate each other.
But no worries. Beth and Gwen are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. How hard can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be?
Of course, just as their plan begins to unfold, a handsome, wealthy viscount starts calling on Beth, offering up the perfect, secure marriage.
Beth’s not mature enough for this…
Now Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with someone else, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she’s caught feelings, hard, and they’re definitely not for her potential fiancé.
That’s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.