Noelle has always dreamed of her future, had it mapped out including a meet cute with her future husband, having children, and owning a house with a white picket fence. Realizing that things don’t always work out like you want them to and feeling tired of waiting for the right man, Noelle decides to make her dreams of a family come true on her own. Most books that discuss the possibility of using a sperm donor and doing IVF end up going in another direction, with the female MC finding a man that will help her get pregnant the old fashioned way, and they eventually fall in love. Not this book! This book takes the highly untraveled route of following through with a sperm donor, IVF, and welcoming a baby girl as a single mother. This book is so honest and raw with the emotions and struggles of a mother! I greatly appreciated the realistic struggles of motherhood displayed throughout this book and how it showed acceptance and tried to normalize the fact that obtaining some of your greatest desires doesn’t mean your life is going to be all sunshine and butterflies. There are still going to be days where you might struggle and you don’t have to feel guilty over it. I sincerely admired Noelle for her strength and bravery for taking control of her future and making her dreams become a reality, especially knowing she wasn’t going to have a partner to help her through the process. This wouldn’t be a Harlow James novel if it didn’t include real life struggles for her characters. I loved that this book brought awareness to and included a topic that is rarely discussed in romance novels. There were some subtle hints dropped about Grant and his personal conflict, but I was not expecting everything that he had suffered through in his past. With great suffering comes great wisdom though and I absolutely loved Grant’s insightfulness! Grant is absolutely perfect for Noelle because he’s charming, understanding, extremely sweet with Scarlett and eager to help with her as well! He goes above and beyond to give Noelle experiences she feels she missed out on, and always makes a point to make her feel not only comfortable, but beautiful in her own skin. I’ve read quite a bit of this author’s back list and one thing I can tell you I greatly appreciate is that she is still able to bring fresh and hot steamy scenes to the table! Noelle reads romance novels as part of her job and this man brings almost every romance reader’s fantasy to life! Not only does her read a steamy scene from one of her books out loud, but he also helps her to reenact it 🔥 I cannot tell you how happy I am that this is not the last book in this series because I have fallen in love with this series and I’m not ready to let any of these characters go! So excited to get a little bit more time with Noelle, Grant, and the rest of the Ladies Who Brunch characters in Jeffrey’s book, Nice Guys Still Finish! Favorite Quote: “You don’t have to take big risks and live dangerously in order to live a full life. We don’t leave impressions on this planet by what we do but by our relationships with other people. -Grant