In my first Saga of Similar But Not the Same, Alice Morgan works on the Moon in the Moon Minerals, Inc. office. She had an affair with the manager but after he would never commit to marriage, she decided to leave and take a job on Mars. She has a tuxedo cat named Frederick, who gets into his own trouble.
She's willing to try new adventures but is hesitant about forming a new relationship.
Like all of my women protagonists, they are not sure of themselves until a challenge has to be done, then they take over.
Alice continues on to help her cousin solve a family crisis on Earth and later she boards a new spaceship to one of the alien's planets. By this time she has had a boy and a girl on Mars.