Sometimes Plan B is the better plan.
Get the BookBea thought she had it all figured out.
The career. The marriage. The family. The plan.
Then, weeks before Christmas, her husband asks for a divorce, leaving Bea to wonder whether she ever built the life she truly wanted—or simply the one she thought she was supposed to.
Now the newest pediatrician at Charity Medical Center is crashing at her little brother’s ocean-view condo with her seven-year-old son, fielding her best friend’s very loud advice, and trying to remember who she was before she became half of a couple at seventeen.
Then there’s Theo: her husband’s estranged childhood best friend, a doctor finishing his residency at her hospital, and, as of this week, her brother’s new neighbor down the hall.
Starting over was never part of the plan.
Neither was he.
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Get notified“Bea, honey, your life is a rom-com. We’re just in the second act, where the protagonist spirals a little before she figures it out.”
Tropes: Her ex’s former best friend · Friends first · Meddling brother and best friend · Single-mom heroine · Doctors in love
Heat level: Open-door romance, with explicit on-page scenes.
Ending: Happily ever after.
Explicit sexual content, divorce and a belittling, controlling ex, alcohol use (including intimacy after drinking), strong language, medical emergencies involving children, a parent with a chronic illness, and a brief physical altercation.
The newest pediatrician at Charity Medical Center, a former trophy-winning swimmer, and Connor’s mom. Bea has been one half of a couple since she was seventeen, and she’s about to find out who she is on her own.
Her husband’s estranged childhood best friend, back in Charity to finish his residency under his father. He has a dry sense of humor, a talent for shadow puppets on the pediatric ward, and a habit of showing up exactly when Bea needs someone.
Bea’s younger brother: an early riser with an ocean-view condo, a standing poker night, and a dating life Bea would rather not hear about. He sold his marketing firm, consults to stay busy, and takes being Connor’s favorite uncle very seriously.
Bea’s best friend since school, with fiery red hair, twin boys and no volume control. She has very loud opinions about what Bea should do next.
Bea’s seven-year-old son. Hockey player, newly obsessed with baseball, and, according to Uncle Jack, his best friend.
I’ve said it umpteen times: I’m an overthinker. Which is a really cute personality trait until you realize it also means I’ve convinced myself I know exactly what’s coming because I’ve planned every possible outcome in excruciating detail.
Life, of course, finds that adorable.
I wrote Plan Bea because I wanted to make sense of what happens when life completely ignores your plans. When you’re still a mother, an employee, a friend, maybe someone whose heart is breaking, and somehow you’re still expected to show up like everything’s fine.
Sometimes you take the punch. Sometimes you bob and weave. Sometimes you ugly cry in the shower and call it self-care.
And because I’m a romance girlie, of course it had to be a love story. Otherwise it’s just… life.
I didn’t write Plan Bea because I had the answers. I wrote it because I had the questions.
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