From a stunning new voice in romance, Lauren OkiesThe Best Worst Thingis an intimate story about starting over, second chances, and two people who cannot help falling into each others orbit once again.

All things considered, Nicole Speyer has a pretty amazing life. At least thats what she tells herself. Shes got a beautiful house, a relatively successful fertility podcast, and a perfect husband, Gabe. The only thing thats less than ideal is her years-long struggle with infertilityand how, with every passing day, she and Gabe seem to drift a little further apart.

But then, mere hours after a Hail Mary embryo transfer to her gestational carrier, Nicole discovers Gabes been sleeping with their dog walker, and her world turns upside down. Suddenly, a jobless, childless, and now-husbandless Nicole finds herself at the doorstep of somebody she tried to say goodbye to a long time ago.

Logan Milgram: a former colleague with serious golden retriever energy who happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, a colossal nerd, and legitimately kind of hot. When Logan opens his door that night, its like no time has passed. And as they fall back into each others lives, Nicole starts recognizing herself in the mirror again. She even begins to like what she sees. And then, like a cruel joke, she gets the news shes spent a lifetime waiting for: her surrogate is finally pregnant.

As her relationship with Logan develops from a blast-from-the-past fling into something much deeper, Nicole struggles to balance her past, present, and future. Racing against the clock, she must learn to forgive her body for falling short and recognize that sometimes, its the biggest betrayals in life that set us free. With everything on the line, can Nicole accept love from the greatest man shes ever known . . . even if its nothing like the story shed written for herself?