Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Friendship
  • Language:English
  • Pages:284
  • eBook ISBN:9798317843458

The Adventures of Jill and Becca

By Gillette Edmunds

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Overview

Enjoy an adventure story of female friendship as Jill and Becca overcome lives of a bad choices and degradation to support and challenge each other in creative ambition, romantic entanglements, financial hardship and success, death of loved ones, infertility, dependent parents, sobriety and hilarious entanglements to grow into mature, healthy, loving women.
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Description

Jill hit bottom when one lover murdered the other, her dance career crashed, and the next boyfriend overdosed. Becca was kicked off the World Cup team drunk, fired for drinking as a college coach and abandoned by her coke addicted tech boyfriend. Now facing life together, Becca and Jill try to grow from mistake prone young women to a mature loving adults. • Should Becca date Jill's older brother and ask her picky mother to check him out? • Must Jill marry a wealthy man to support the low paying job she loves teaching dance? • Can Jill channel her creative genius in dance to Becca to enhance and bring joy to Becca's new career? • How can Jill bury her father and afford to house, raise and support her angry widowed mother without killing her? • Can Becca co-parent her stepdaughter with her husband's homeless, drug addicted ex? • Will unpredictable, funny private detective fees be enough to supplement Jill's income after her live-in boyfriend abandons her? • Can Becca move past cancer and infertility? • Will Jill ever find the partner that works for her beyond the bedroom? Working together as friends and spiritual partners, Jill and Becca dance and weave through it all to create joyous, quirky, happy lives.
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About The Author

Gillette Edmunds is the author of four novels and four nonfiction books. The fourth novel, The Adventures of Jill and Becca, arrived summer 2026. Tourists off the Tour, Gillette Edmunds' second novel, originally published in 2023 solely as an eBook, will be released as a print book summer, 2025. Gillette began work on Tourist off the Tour in 1984 and then set it aside until 2001. After working on it a few months, he resumed writing nonfiction, finally returning to Tourists in 2021. His first novel, We Were, was published in early 2021. Stand Like a Dancer, Gillette's third novel was published in early 2025. After a successful career in money management, Gillette writes novels derived from his personal experiences including extensive travel and chaotic, comical relationships. Gillette has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and was a ghost writer in 1980-81. Gillette is married and has three adult children and one grandchild. He had a successful career as a non-fiction writer. Gillette is the author of How to Retire Early and Live Well with Less Than a Million Dollars (Adams Media, 2000), Comfort Zone Investing (Career Press, 2002), REITs for the New Decade (various e-book web publishers, 2001), Retire on the House (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and many articles. How to Retire Early sold more than 85,000 copies.
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