The Bright Side of Disaster

Jenny Harris always assumed her life would go in a set order: love, marriage, then a baby. Now she is very pregnant and not yet married, living with her fiance, Dean, who has grown distant in a way that has nothing to do with wedding nerves. She loves him enough to put up with his smoking, his poor facial hair and his devotion to a cheesy cover band.

The night Dean goes out for cigarettes and does not come back, he stops being her future husband in her eyes and becomes the father of her child, nothing more. The next day, Jenny goes into labor.

The months that follow are a crash course in single motherhood. Jenny deals with broken sleep, sore breasts and bouts of crying, hers and the baby's, which leaves little room to brood. She learns to do everything one-handed and joins a mommy group.

She also coaches her sweet, clueless father on dating, since he is trying to win back her sassy mother fifteen years after their divorce. A handsome neighbor who is good at calming babies invites her out dancing.

Dean still occupies her thoughts, and he keeps turning up at her door. Jenny has to decide between the life she believed she wanted and the one she has landed in. This is a comic women's fiction novel with a warm, chatty voice, and it treats the early months of motherhood with humor and affection.