Anna Pivato
Kissing Abbi
Anna and Abbi are best friends, each married to a man she no longer loves. Their friendship keeps deepening into something neither of them planned, or feels ready to say out loud.
“The most unexpected love can be the hardest to deny.”
Told in both women’s voices, it is a warm, slow-burn love story about self-worth and starting over in midlife. Emotional-first, hopeful, and inspired by a true story.
Tropes & Themes
- 💛Friends to lovers, slow burn
- 🌙Dual POV
- 🏳️🌈Sapphic / WLW romance
- 🌊Small-town lakeside setting
- ✍️Based on a true story
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- 💔Trapped in an unhappy marriage
- 🔄Midlife reinvention, second chances
- 🎭Married to a narcissist
Content Warnings
- Terminal illness and the on-page decline and death of a spouse from cancer, including hospice scenes
- Emotional abuse and narcissistic behaviour within a marriage
- A failing long-term marriage and divorce
- Grief, guilt, and no longer loving a dying spouse
- A midlife same-sex awakening and the fear of coming out to children, parents, and community
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- Off-page death of a teenager in a car accident
- A serious car accident later in the story
- References to a past spouse’s infidelity
- Brief explicit sexual content between two women, and some strong language
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- Released25 Aug 2026
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