Books like Best-Laid Plans by Mary Tate Engels

Kathryn, a 36‑year‑old Bostonian engaged to become Mrs. Northrop Davis Ill, seeks marriage and children. A brief holiday romance with businessman Nick Marganin resurfaces, threatening to unravel her best‑laid plans.

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

It's a foolproof strategy...until the emotional balance shifts. After yet another adoption falls through, Gabe is ready to give up, and Shahid isn't far behind him. Apparently, being a gay couple-half of which is Muslim-is just one strike too many for the powers that be. When their friend Kendra offers to carry their baby for them, both men balk at first, but gradually warm to the idea. Especially Gabe, whose bisexuality is open to the chemistry among the three of them. The plan seems simple. Kendra and Gabe, foregoing the cold, impersonal IVF clinic, paperwork and red tape, will conceive the old-fashioned way. They'll all share parenting responsibilities, and live happily baby after. But as the heat flares between Gabe and Kendra, Shahid's long-suppressed insecurities bubble to the surface. Then some unexpected news catches the trio off guard and derails their plans-and now one heart could be left out in the cold. Warning: Authors subsist on the tears of readers. Please recycle your hankies by wringing out and reusing. We'd hate to be the cause of a worldwide shortage of Kleenex.

Corporate lawyer Alexandra Knight battles her ticking biological clock and a career‑driven life when a bold co‑worker offers an unconventional solution: co‑parenting to preserve her career and single status.

Corporate lawyer Alexandra Knight feels her out-of-control biological clock is ticking too fast. When Ethan Stone, her colleague who avoids all commitment, says he'll become her baby daddy, will crossing the line from coworker to co-parent ruin Alex for all other men?