Welcome to Sandra Paul

They were alone together during a three-day blizzard. They had to stay warm, didn’t they?

Elizabeth “Libby” Sinclair has everything figured out: a Victorian attic apartment in small-town Cauldron, far from her indifferent mother; a job at the local department store; and a plan to raise her baby solo—without the man who left his “emergency contact information” seven months ago then disappeared.

Del Delaney has spent his adult life avoiding commitments. But when he shows up uninvited at Libby’s surprise shower and she tries to hide her prominent baby bump behind a throw pillow—while pretending they’re strangers—the truth hits him. That’s his baby. She never called. The woman he hasn’t been able to forget is about to become a mother. Without him.

Not happening.

Suddenly Del is measuring her belly with pink yarn while half the town is speculating about the father. Then he becomes her birthing coach, her personal chef, her rodent-removal service—whatever she needs.

But what Libby needs is more than good intentions, and Del’s still figuring out how to be a present father with a job that keeps him gone. She needs a man who’s dependable. He needs her to believe he can be that man—before their baby arrives.

Libby won’t marry him out of obligation, but winning her heart? That’s going to take more than charm and home cooked chicken dinners. Lucky for Del, Libby’s exactly stubborn enough to make him work for it—and exactly perfect enough to be worth the fight.

A second-chance, small-town rom-com where fashionably late means showing up seven months overdue.