Life's Too Short

Vanessa Price quit her job to travel the world, and the videos she posted along the way earned her millions of YouTube followers. She lives by one rule: use every day. Her mother and her sister both died before turning 30, so she refuses to put anything off.

Her plans fall apart when her half sister leaves her in charge of a baby daughter. Daily adventure turns into sleepless chaos, with baby vomit in her hair as the least of it. Help arrives from an unlikely place: Adrian Copeland, the lawyer next door, whom she barely knows.

Adrian turns out to have a talent with babies, and he comes with a very old Chihuahua. As Vanessa and Adrian spend more and more time together, she starts to feel things she swore she would not feel. Falling for him is only half the problem. The other half is hope for a future she may not get to see.

This is a romantic comedy about two opposites, with plenty of humor in the baby and dog chaos and a tender, emotional undercurrent running beneath it. It was among the Romance finalists and winners of a 2021 best-of list, and it also won a Minnesota Book Award.