Summer Made Us Talk
One baby. Three possible fathers. Five days before Amelia Porter loses her apartment. When eighteen-year-old Amy arrives at the Turner house with eight-month-old Summer in her arms, she is not looking....
One baby. Three possible fathers. Five days before Amelia Porter loses her apartment. When eighteen-year-old Amy arrives at the Turner house with eight-month-old Summer in her arms, she is not looking for romance. She needs a safe place for her daughter, and Jered Turner may be Summer’s father. Jered is a firefighter recruit with no idea Amy was ever pregnant, but one look at the loud, stubborn little girl wearing his expressions turns his carefully planned life inside out. A DNA test can answer who Summer’s father is. It cannot repair the complicated history between Amy and Jered, teach them how to trust each other again, or decide whether the love they once handled badly can survive real adulthood. Inside the sprawling Turner home, privacy is scarce, family news travels at dangerous speed, and ordinary life refuses to wait. Between sleepless nights, firefighter shifts, teething disasters, meddling twins, fiercely loving grandparents, career choices, road trips, new pregnancies, and a toddler determined to claim everything as “mine,” Amy and Jered must learn how to build a family without confusing love with obligation. Warm, funny, intimate, and emotionally grounded, this continuing family romance follows two young parents as they grow together, make mistakes, repair what they can, and discover that accepting help is not failure, commitment is more than a promise, and home is something people create one ordinary day at a time. One baby made them talk. Building a life together will require them to keep talking.