Soft The Peyton Parker Chronicles- Soft Launch, Hard Feelings

Jess knows exactly how relationships fall apart. As a family lawyer handling one divorce after another, she has built a life around clarity, caution, and never promising more than she can control. So when she starts seeing Poppy James, a warm, steady florist with a bohemian streak and a way of making everything feel softer, Jess keeps the arrangement exactly where she wants it: undefined, low-pressure, and absolutely casual.

At least, that's her argument.

Unfortunately, her friends have receipts.

The more time Jess spends at Poppy's flower shop, in Poppy's apartment, and inside a version of her life that feels dangerously easy, the harder it becomes to maintain the fiction that none of this means anything. Poppy is patient, perceptive, and entirely uninterested in pretending something is casual just because Jess is scared to call it real.

As the group chat weighs in, brunch interrogations escalate, and Jess finds herself losing control of the narrative she worked so hard to manage, she has to decide whether keeping her feelings undefined is protecting her-or just costing her the one woman she doesn't want to lose.

Soft Launch, Hard Feelings is a funny, fast-paced queer romance about emotional avoidance, group chat evidence, affectionate friend-group chaos, and what happens when the truth shows up before you're ready to admit it.