She’s the daughter I never expected.
He’s the one-night-stand love I walked away from.
Now, I’m back—facing the love I abandoned and the life I left behind.
I left Jake Matthews, my one-night-stand love—terrified, alone, and pregnant—thinking I was doing the right thing.
But every day without him has left a hole in my heart.
I’ve been sent to Chestnut Creek for business, to take over his café.
But one look at Jake—and our five-year-old daughter, Emma, with his eyes and my curls—turns my world upside down.
She’s the secret I kept from him, the love I thought I could forget.
Jake is stronger, more confident, and still impossibly irresistible.
Falling for him again means risking everything. But trust isn’t free, and love isn’t guaranteed.
Can Jake open his heart to the woman who abandoned him, or will he turn his back on me—and the daughter I kept from him?