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 a huge surprise it
is.
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 her 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,
three-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But
she’s 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.