Ready or Not - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Cara Bastone is a full-time writer who lives and writes in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and an almost-goldendoodle. Her goal with her work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories. She’s been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school. She’s a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren’t hobbled by their own masculinity. Klappentext "Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy, but close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, religious upbringing where she always felt misunderstood. While her position as an administrative assistant at the Wildlife Federation of America is a dream-adjacent job, she's hoping her passion and hard work will help her land a more glamorous role where she could actually make a difference someday. And sure, her most recent romantic history has consisted of not one but two disappointing men named Derek. At least she always knows what to expect...until she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night-stand. Suddenly, this surprise pregnancy cracks open all the relationships in her life. Eve's ride-or-die friendship with Willa is suddenly feeling off. And surprisingly, it's Willa's steadfast older brother, Shep, who steps up to help. He has always been supportive, but now he's checking in, ordering her surprise lunches, listening to all her woes, and... is suddenly irresistible? Add in a kind but conflicted baby daddy--who also happens to have a girlfriend--and Eve is feeling out of her depth, to say the least. Over the course of nine months, as Eve struggles to figure out the next right step in her expanding reality, she begins to realize that love, in all forms, can sneak up on you when you least expect it"-- Leseprobe One I didn’t start this day thinking I’d be handing over a Dixie cup of my own urine to a woman in lavender scrubs. “What’s the verdict?” I ask about seven seconds after the nurse dips the stick into the cup on the other side of the exam room. She is one of those ageless people whose fluffy gray-­brown hair could have been that of an unfortunate thirty-­five-­year-­old or a banging hot fifty-­five-­year-­old. Her face gives away nothing as she looks up at me. “The doctor will be in to discuss your results, Ms. Hatch.” AKA, I’m not gonna be the one to tell you there’s an egg in your biscuit. “Call me Eve and, look, you can just tell me. I’m sure you can read the stick as well as the doctor can. I know I’m pregnant anyways. I took three tests on my own. I did the research.” (On the train on the way over here.) “I know that false positives really only happen for women who were just recently pregnant or taking certain fertility meds. There’s no way I’m not pregnant.” I’m telling her. I’m telling myself. I’m telling the universe, because the facts are grounding me. I’m trying to be realistic here. I refuse to be secretly hoping for either outcome. The nurse’s face shows zero signs of life. Maybe that’s the secret to her ageless success. If one never, ever moves one’s face, one can look forty in one’s seventies. I make a mental note to start having fewer emotions. Probably a super achievable goal right at the beginning of an unplanned pregnancy, right? “The doctor will discuss it with you. Now, I just need some basic info from you.” She has me hop on a scale and then takes my blood pressure. I’m shocked when I don’t blow up the machine like a desktop plugged in during a lightning storm. She confirms my family history. And then the fun questions begin. “Are you sexually active?” she asks the computer screen. “You know, the term ‘sexually active’ has always been so weird to me. It doesn’t make s...

Product details

• Authors: Cara Bastone
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9780593595718
• ISBN: 978-0-593-59571-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Dial Delights
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature