She has watched her brother and her sisters make their own ways in the world, fighting for their own causes. Now it’s her turn. Using a male alias, one of her inventions is accepted by a manufacturing company. She hopes the invention will speak for itself when it’s time to sign the contract and the agent realizes she’s female. But in order to convince him to sign her, she must find her other voice as well—the voice of self-assertion, the one allows her to take her wit and her intelligence and step into the light in order to be seen and heard as a woman who has worth as both a person and an inventor.
This was such a fun story to write. Both Jules and Rebecca are on their own journeys of self-discovery and realization. Together, they prove that opposites attract but deep down once the layers are peeled back, they’re not all that different. They have the same hopes, the same insecurities, and the same strengths if they are just willing to find the courage to embrace them.
I think their story is very relatable regardless of
the century. When we look around our circle of friends, we see it peopled with
those who lift us up. But like Jules and Rebecca, we also are faced with
decisions about what to do with the people who do not lift us up, and instead
seek to tear us down. It takes courage to step away from them when they are
also people we love.
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