The Best Worst Thing: A Novel

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The Best Worst Thing: A Novel.

A heartfelt romance about unexpected second chances, healing after heartbreak, and finding love when life takes an entirely different path.

From a captivating new voice in contemporary romance, Lauren Okie’s The Best Worst Thing is an emotional and intimate story about starting over, rediscovering yourself, and the unexpected people who can change your life forever.

Nicole Speyer has always believed she has everything figured out. She has a beautiful home, a successful fertility podcast, and a loving marriage with her husband, Gabe. The one painful exception is her long struggle with infertility—a challenge that has slowly created distance between her and the person she thought would always stand beside her.

Then, just hours after a final attempt to build the family she has dreamed of through a gestational carrier, Nicole’s carefully planned life falls apart. She discovers that Gabe has been unfaithful, leaving her without a marriage, a career path, or the future she imagined.

With nowhere else to turn, Nicole finds herself seeking comfort from someone she once promised to leave behind: Logan Milgram.

Logan is a former colleague with an unforgettable personality—funny, thoughtful, wonderfully awkward, and far more charming than Nicole remembers. When he opens his door, it feels as though no time has passed. As they reconnect, Nicole begins to see pieces of herself returning. For the first time in years, she starts to feel hopeful again.

But just when she begins to embrace this new chapter, she receives the news she has been waiting for her entire life: her surrogate is pregnant.

Caught between the future she always wanted and the unexpected love she never planned for, Nicole must confront her fears, her past, and the ways she has measured her own worth. As her connection with Logan grows from a familiar friendship into something deeper, she must decide whether she can let go of the life she imagined and accept the one waiting for her.

Tender, funny, and deeply moving, The Best Worst Thing is a story about heartbreak, resilience, forgiveness, and discovering that sometimes the moments that break us are the ones that lead us exactly where we belong.