Thanks to a college softball scholarship, Ninah Faust escaped her upbringing as well, leaving eastern Kentucky’s impoverished coal country for the quaint small town of Leland. Now a high school history teacher, she enjoys a laid back lifestyle, a close-knit circle of lesbian friends, and the Longdogs, Leland’s minor league baseball team. Ninah knows better than to fall for newcomer Britt, whose plan is to get in, get rich, and get out. Britt knows better too, since the last thing she needs is a girlfriend in Kentucky. But fall they do—so which one will give up her perfect life for the other?
The Lucky Ones marks a return to the idyllic hamlet of Leland, Kentucky, where you’re sure to run into the town’s most prominent lesbian couple—Justine Hall and Carly Griffin, from The House on Sandstone.
Though she’d always dreamed of becoming an astronaut, KG MacGregor earned her PhD in journalism and went to work as a political pollster and market researcher. During her travels for work in 2002, she wrote her first piece of fiction and discovered her bliss. Since then, she has authored nearly two dozen novels, collecting a Lammy and seven Golden Crown Awards. KG is past-president of the Board of Trustees of the Lambda Literary Foundation. Home is on a snowy ridge of her native North Carolina mountains, where she lives with Jenny, the best partner a writer could have; and Rosalind Russell, the feline version of Auntie Mame.