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Southern California – Present Day Nicole Speyer and her husband, Gabe, have been trying for years to have a baby. After several failed pregnancies, they tried IVF. Nothing worked. Down to Nicole’s last two eggs, they decide to have the doctor implant them in their surrogate, who happens to live in Virginia. Returning home after making the cross-country trip, Nicole is shocked to discover that Gabe is having sex with their dog walker. Their marriage is over! But there is the issue of the potential baby (or babies). How will their pending divorce affect it? Trying to forget her problems, a friend suggests looking up a former coworker, Logan Milgram. To Nicole’s surprise, she and Logan hit it off again. First as friends, then as a potential romance. Unfortunately, Nicole has to deal with the fallout from her broken marriage and the baby that will be born in nine months. Yes, the eggs transfer worked this time. Nicole is dealing with a lot of emotions in THE BEST WORST THING by Lauren Okie. She feels like her body betrayed her, and she was a failure because she couldn’t have a baby. Having a baby consumed her, and she thought Gabe was all in for years. But along the way, her attempts at controlling their love life wore him out. I’m not saying that he was right in cheating on Nicole, but it’s clear that they drifted apart. Nicole has a popular podcast based on her infertility journey. The failure of her marriage will rock the people who follow her. How will it affect the woman who is carrying the baby? Meanwhile, Logan is someone to enjoy being around. He’s sympathetic to her. He is nice to her. Nicole soon has regrets over the way she ended her friendship with Logan years ago. He may have been her coworker back then, and Gabe was her husband, but he is someone she could lay her head on his shoulders. Maybe Logan should have been the one she fell in love with. Is it too late? How does he feel about Nicole, a woman who can’t give him a child? Logan may be the best and worst thing to happen to Nicole. Why? With the legal issues surrounding the upcoming birth and Gabe insisting that they can make it work, she wonders if she is making a mistake. A beautiful journey of discovery for Nicole and for readers as she is pulled into doubting herself and her soon-to-come realizations. Will she make the right decision in the end? Find out the answer by picking up a copy of THE BEST WORST THING. Patti Fischer |
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THE BEST WORST THING – Lauren Okie