Welcome to Litsy!

A kid walks into your bookstore and� Guess what? He�s your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It�s a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother�without a word to either her or his dad. It�s also a surprise� to say the least�to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. She�s spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore with her grandfather, hangs out with her four younger siblings and is more or less happily single, though she can�t help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, her old friend from high school. He�s moved back to town, three-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But she�s always figured her life had to be child-free, so that complicates things. When Matthew walks into Harlow�s store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions�about what being a parent really means�explode. This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined�and as both women learn that for them, there�s no limit to a mother�s love.