Isla Monroe is a compulsive planner with colour-coded calendars, a five-year plan, and a personal goal to "be more spontaneous" without having a panic attack. Ellie Burns is a chronic underachiever who's coasting through life, dreaming of more but too busy avoiding her terrible boss and her own fears to actually look for it.
So of course, the two of them are destined to be best friends.
When a painful breakup leaves Isla feeling like she'll never have her meet-cute moment, Ellie convinces her that all they need is a little "planned spontaneity" for destiny to work overtime and deliver their soulmates. You know: crafting meet cutes over spilled coffee, staging accidental run-ins with the lead singer of the band, purposely stumbling on curbs and getting caught by attractive strangers...
But when Isla's impulsive decision to act as Ellie's fake girlfriend to fend off family drama and an accidental kiss under the New Year's Eve disco ball feels way too real, they each start to realize that no matter how hard they try to make sparks fly with someone else... they keep tripping over each other instead.
The only problem? One of them isn't sure she's doing this for the right reasons... and the other has sworn off falling for her best friend ever again.
Fate and Fried Chicken is a slow burn sapphic romcom full of friends-to-lovers heat, queer awakenings, and the realization that sometimes the real soulmates are the friends we "platonically" spooned with along the way.
