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Gillette Edmunds Books

The Adventures of Jill and Becca

Jill hit bottom when one lover murdered the other, her dance career crashed, and the next boyfriend overdosed. Becca was kicked off the World Cup team drunk, fired for drinking as a college coach and abandoned by her coke addicted tech boyfriend. Now facing life together, Becca and Jill try to grow from mistake‑prone young women to mature loving adults.

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  • Should Becca date Jill’s older brother and ask her picky mother to check him out?

  • Must Jill marry a wealthy man to support the low paying job she loves teaching dance?

  • Can Jill channel her creative genius in dance to Becca to enhance and bring joy to Becca’s new career?

  • How can Jill bury her father and afford to house, raise and support her angry widowed mother without killing her?

  • Can Becca co-parent her stepdaughter with her husband’s homeless, drug addicted ex?

  • Will unpredictable, funny private detective fees be enough to supplement Jill’s income after her live-in boyfriend abandons her?

  • Can Becca move past cancer and infertility?

  • Will Jill ever find the partner that works for her beyond the bedroom?

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Working together as friends and spiritual partners, Jill and Becca dance and weave through it all to create joyous, quirky, happy lives.


Enjoy an adventure story of female friendship as Jill and Becca overcome lives of a bad choices and degradation to support and challenge each other in creative ambition, romantic entanglements, financial hardship and success, death of loved ones, infertility, dependent parents, sobriety and hilarious entanglements to grow into mature, healthy, loving women.

Stand Like a Dancer

Talented dancer and journalist Lydia falls in and out of love with basketball star Mark, leading to a tumultuous relationship filled with passion and addiction. Their story winds through journalistic success, a fabulously profitable night club, personal traumas, addiction, recovery, a dramatic cliffhanger and a spiritual resolution.

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  • Can high school basketball star Mark attract brilliant, beautiful and talented head cheerleader Lidia?

  • Introducing her father to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on her way to a Broadway career, why would Lidia ever return to boring, handsome, hardworking Mark?

  • Has investigative journalist Lidia uncovered too much about her own past?

  • Will an intense, substance-fueled relationship be enough for Lidia to overcome newly discovered painful truths?

  • On a spiritual quest, Lidia has a vision to start a nightclub. Club Lidia, managed by Mark, featuring Lydia’s dance routines, is massively successful. Who killed her dream?

  • Did Lydia walk out of the hospital voluntarily? Was she kidnapped? Did she commit suicide? Was she murdered?

  • Sobering up with sister Jill, can Mark move forward without Lidia?

  • What does the Great Spirit have to do with it?

Tourists off the Tour

From London to Paris to Rome to Miami Beach to New York and more, follow the whirlwind romantic 1984 dramedy of sexy, needy, housewife Barbara Ashe, philandering Dr. Charles Ashe, talented, proud Sonya Clarke and nervous wreck, brilliant tax attorney Michael Clarke.


You think you got lost during your last trip to Paris? Gorgeous Sonya, once married to the world-famous rock star, Rod Harrison, is now in her fourth marriage with renowned tax attorney Michael traveling on a tour through Europe in 1984. The third morning in Paris, Sonya tells Michael that she is having an affair with Dr. Charles and that they intend to marry after the tour. Michael refuses to continue the tour and tells Dr. Charles' wife, the sexy Barbara, about the affair. Sonya and Dr. Charles leave Paris together, stranding Michael and Barbara at the hotel. Stumbling from London to Paris to Rome to Miami Beach to New York to Cleveland and more, separating, reuniting, adrift in foreign cities, coupling, uncoupling, through ecstatic sex, panic attacks and recovery, Tourists off the Tour swirls towards a comic, fulfilling conclusion.

We Were

Gillette Edmunds brings you his debut novel We Were, a dramatic tale about living fast, blinders on. In this story, four close friends, pursuing their dreams in California, lived on the edge – their lives were filled with wealth, sex, alcohol, and thrill. Only one friend, Mitch, makes it out alive. In this book, Mitch writes his friends' stories as they could not.


It wasn't murder. It wasn't suicide. It wasn't an accident. What happened? Living fast in California in the late 20th century, the fun never ends…until it does. Timo, Fernando, Rob and Mitch leave New Mexico for college in California to pursue their dreams. Timo, a world class athlete, brilliant scholar, proud Latino has a shot at fortune, fame and fabulous women. The investigation was inconclusive. Confident, beautiful Fernando, with playmates and princesses falling for him, chases his dream in Napa Valley. No one foresaw what really went down. Tall, nervous Rob becomes the pot boss of Santa Barbara, a Buddhist priest, and a successful artist. He vows to not make the same mistakes on the outside that got his cellmate arrested again. The nurse said it wasn't a disease. Mitch, entangled in affairs and fired from a fabulous job, tells the story of how it all went so wrong for his beloved friends.

About the Author

Gillette Edmunds is the author of four novels and four nonfiction books. The fourth novel, The Adventures of Jill and Becca, arrived in summer 2026. Tourists off the Tour, Gillette Edmunds’ second novel, originally published in 2023 solely as an eBook, was released as a print book summer, 2025. Gillette began work on Tourists off the Tour in 1984 and then set it aside until 2001. After working on it a few months, he resumed writing nonfiction, finally returning to Tourists in 2021. His first novel, We Were, was published in early 2021. Stand Like a Dancer, Gillette’s third novel was published in early 2025. After a successful career in money management, Gillette writes novels derived from his personal experiences including extensive travel and chaotic, comical relationships. Gillette has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and was a ghost writer in 1980-81. Gillette is married and has three adult children and one grandchild. He had a successful career as a non-fiction writer. Gillette is the author of How to Retire Early and Live Well with Less Than a Million Dollars (Adams Media, 2000), Comfort Zone Investing (Career Press, 2002), REITs for the New Decade (various ebook web publishers, 2001), Retire on the House (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and many articles.

You can email Gillette at: (new email address coming soon)

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