My Best Plan

By Cris Ascunce

She has one fight and everything to lose.

Gene has always played by the rules—followed the law, built a stable home, and raised her daughters with the woman she loves. But when a single piece of paper threatens to unravel everything she’s fought for, she’s faced with an impossible choice: stay silent and compliant… or risk everything to protect her family.

Set between the banyan-lined streets of Coral Gables and the sun-soaked vineyards of southern Spain, My Best Plan is a sapphic novel about love, justice, and the quiet power of rebellion. Gene and Isa—two queer moms bound by love and legacy—must navigate a legal and emotional minefield when their nontraditional family is put to the test.

As political tensions rise and the line between personal and public becomes dangerously blurred, Gene finds herself doing what she never imagined: breaking the rules she’s spent her life following.

My Best Plan is a story for anyone who has ever questioned what makes a family, and how far we’re willing to go to defend it. At once tender, urgent, and quietly radical, this debut novel celebrates the strength of queer motherhood, the resilience of chosen family, and the complicated beauty of doing what’s right—even when the law says you’re wrong.

For fans of emotionally driven sapphic fiction with heart, heat, and high stakes.