Jane, the Early Years

I poured a lot of myself into this 'prequel.'  Actually,  Jane, the Early Years, and Jane, were a single story, of which the second part just happened to be published first.  Possibly precisely because I was a little embarrassed with how emotional the first part was. 

Jane unexpectedly meets her (younger) brother, Arthur—in Early Years—and Jane breaks off her connections to her ex, whose name I forget, and the activities of Jane and her friends begin to center around the Internet, when they discover that Jane's brother Arthur knew his way around the Web.  Scorpia is invented about halfway through, and remains a major feature of the story for a long time.  Scorpia rides again in the second part, and Gillian and Angela are discovered to have been Scorpia fans before Gillian even comes to the US.

There are several pairings that happen in this pair of books.  Firstly, Jane and Deanna; then Jane and Heather; then Jane and Maria; then Jane and Mary-Ellen.  In the second book, it's mostly Jane and Gillian (and Angie, I suppose), and at the end ... well, you'll have to read it to find out.