A kid walks into your bookstore, and … guess what?
He’s your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago.
The one you never told anyone about. Surprise!
And it’s a huge surprise.
It’s a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother … without a word to either Monica or his dad.
It’s also a surprise—to say the least—to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. She’s spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore with her grandfather, hangs out with her four younger siblings, and is more or less happily single, though she can’t help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, her old friend from high school. He’s moved back to town, four-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But Harlow has always figured her life had to be child-free, so that complicates things.
When Matthew walks into Harlow’s store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions—about what being a parent really means—explode. This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined … and as both women learn that for them, there’s no limit to a mother’s love.
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“A raw and genuine look at motherhood…A lovely ode to love in all of its many forms, family lost and found.”
— Ashley Poston, New York Times best-selling author
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Kristan Higgins is the author of fiction and romance fiction, eight books in two series and fifteen stand-alone novels. Her books have made the bestsellers lists of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.
Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.