Genre:
Women's Fiction
Themes:
Enemies to Lovers
Pet / Wild Animal
Second Chance
Slow Burn
Workplace / Office Romance
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Law Enforcement
Geographic Location:
United States
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Corporation / Office / Workplace
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Transgender
Trigger/Content Warning:
transwoman with a penis
Wishbone
Golden Crown Literary Award (Goldie)
By Elaine Burnes
Wishbone is about finding security and love when you have been raised with neither.
It’s 2004, the year same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts, the year the Red Sox break the curse, and the year everything changes for Meg Myers.
Meg is an animal control officer who doesn’t much like people and doesn’t believe wishes come true. She grew up in state care, bouncing between foster homes and her alcoholic mother. Left physically and emotionally scarred, she is guarded about her past and pessimistic about her future. So she focuses on her job and her dream of opening an animal shelter.
Meg’s world is rocked by three women: Pam and her foster daughter, Violet; Gina, twin to Meg’s best friend Jeff; and Samantha, the vet who shares an uncomfortable past with Meg. Through her relationships with these women, Meg is forced to explore mother-daughter bonds, loss and grief, and what defines friendship and gender in her quest to find security and love for the first time in her life.
