She Doesn't Have to Choose

Birdie Vance was raised on the arithmetic of scarcity: one slice each, one love each, and a girl who reaches for more is greedy, and greedy girls get slapped. So the happiest she has ever been is also, somehow, the most in trouble she has ever felt — because she has three of them, and the whole world keeps telling her that's about one and a half too many. Hatchet, who is steady as a load-bearing wall and terrified of nothing except what the club will say. Tyne, who wears his heart on his sleeve and makes the other two laugh when the room goes tight. Slade, who runs so guarded and so deep that Birdie sometimes thinks he's already braced for the day one of them gets cut loose — and is sure it'll be him. Three Kinsmen brothers, one woman, one quiet, defiant, impossible year and a half of a life that the town of Ember says can't exist. And then two pink lines change the math for good. Birdie hides the pregnancy at first, because a baby is exactly the thing that forces the question they've all been so carefully not asking. Whose is it? Who's the father? Which one does she pick to be the dad — and what happens to the other two? The club matriarch has an answer ready and gentle and merciless: just choose one, honey. Make it respectable. Make it fit. But Birdie is done doing scarcity's math. A heart can hold three. That isn't greed — it's abundance, and she is finished apologizing for it. If the four of them are going to be a family, it won't be by cutting anyone loose to make the shape the world can stand to look at. It'll be all of them, out loud, at whatever it costs — and a cradle with three names carved into it, for a baby who gets three fathers and a mother who never once had to choose. An emotional, found-family why-choose (reverse-harem) motorcycle club romance about a woman with three good men who love her and each other's place in her life, a surprise baby, and the courage to keep a whole family instead of shrinking it to fit. NO cheating, NO love-triangle-loser — a consensual, all-in, all-four happily-ever-after. Full-length novel with a guaranteed HEA.