Mutuals, Mishaps & Making Out: The Peyton Parker Chronicles

By Peyton Pike

Lily likes clarity, competence, and people who do not arrive prepackaged as a developing situation.

Unfortunately, Mara arrives with mutuals.

What begins as a highly questionable brunch ambush quickly turns into something more complicated: attraction, alignment, crossed wires, and a woman Lily cannot quite dismiss as efficiently as she would prefer. Mara is smart, composed, impossible to read in exactly the ways that matter, and already lightly pre-vetted by a friend group that treats compatibility like both a civic duty and a competitive sport.

Which would be bad enough.

But in Peyton Parker's world, romance is never just between two people. It is shaped by overlapping exes, mutual connections, group-chat opinions, brunch politics, inherited narratives, and the deeply inconvenient fact that everyone is always at least partially involved.

As Lily and Mara try to figure out whether what's happening between them is real, the network around them keeps supplying extra data, conflicting interpretations, and just enough affectionate interference to make things worse before they get better.

Mutuals, Mishaps & Making Out is a funny, fast-paced sapphic romance about chemistry, timing, misreads, emotional precision, and what happens when two women try to build something real inside a social ecosystem that is already watching.

Perfect for readers who love:

sapphic romancewitty banterqueer friend-group chaosoverlapping exes and mutual meddlingemotionally smart, city-forward contemporary romance

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYLG9P4C
• ISBN13: 9798258912664
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"