Wait For It

Diana Casillas is trying to do one thing in her life correctly: adulting.

Two years ago a family tragedy left her the legal guardian of her two young nephews, Josh and Louie. Now she has a house of her own, a job that takes everything she has, a giant dog who mostly sleeps, and two boys who need her to have answers she does not always have. She has, more or less, everything — except someone to share it with. She is not at all sure she needs one.

Which brings us to the man next door. Dallas keeps her at arm's length at first, and he has his reasons. Then they are friends. Then it goes from there, slowly, over hundreds of pages, in the way Mariana Zapata's books famously do.

Wait for It is a long, warm, low-drama romance about a woman who is already doing the hardest job there is and a man who turns out to be very good with her kids. The nephews are not set dressing — they are half the reason the book works. Readers who want the romance to move quickly should look elsewhere; readers who want to watch two people genuinely earn each other will find this is the point.