Text Back, Babe

Peyton Parker is excellent at texting back.

In theory.

In practice, she is significantly better at drafting, deflecting, calibrating tone, and turning one direct question into a full internal crisis with excellent punctuation.

So when Jade White-sharp, calm, devastatingly perceptive Jade White-asks a question Peyton cannot professionally sidestep, Peyton finds herself in unfamiliar territory: one where cleverness stops working, her friends have opinions, and every delayed response starts to look suspiciously like fear.

Unfortunately, Peyton's friend group is uniquely qualified to identify her patterns in real time.

They know when she is spiraling.
They know when she is editing instead of answering.
And they know that Jade might be the first woman in a very long time who sees straight through the performance and waits for the truth anyway.

As the entire network closes ranks, brunch becomes an intervention, texting becomes a blood sport, and Peyton runs out of ways to make honesty sound safer than it is.

Because saying yes to a date was the easy part.

Saying why she said yes?

That is where things get dangerous.

Text Back, Babe is a witty, fast-paced queer romantic comedy about emotional risk, beautifully invasive friendships, and what happens when the woman who is best with words finally has to stop hiding inside them.