Not What I Planned: A Single Dad Forbidden Romance Where the Best Things Never Are

She came home for the summer with a plan. Will Garrett wasn't part of it.

He's her brother's best friend. He has a four-year-old daughter who collects rocks and asks better questions than most adults. He runs a boat repair yard by the harbor with the patience of someone who has learned that the right things take as long as they take. Maisie Tompkins was not supposed to notice any of this. She noticed all of it.

Maisie has spent her adult life moving toward the next right thing — better city, better job, better version of a life she keeps optimizing without quite arriving anywhere. The summer in Portsmith was supposed to be a pause. A chance to breathe before she takes the position in Seattle and gets back on track.

Then Will's daughter offers her a rock. And Will himself turns out to be the kind of man who fills the kettle before he empties it, says exactly what he means, and looks at her like she's something worth being careful with.

The problem isn't that she's falling for him. The problem is that he's her brother's closest friend, he has a daughter who is already starting to matter to Maisie more than she planned for, and she has a job offer with a deadline — and Will Garrett, for all his steadiness, keeps saying the right things just a moment too late.

Not What I Planned is a slow-burn forbidden romance about two people who are very good at protecting themselves and very bad at admitting what they want. It's about a woman who finally stops running and a man who finally starts trying. It's about what happens when the life you didn't plan turns out to be the one that fits.

If you love emotionally grounded small-town romance with real tension, genuine heat, a child who steals every scene she's in, and an ending that earns every page that came before it — this is the book you've been looking for.

Not What I Planned is a complete standalone romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. No cliffhangers. No love triangles. Just two people, one harbor town, and a summer that changes everything.

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E-bog: 15. juni 2026