Pregnant in Pennsylvania (Fifty States of Love)

When you’re from a place like Clayton, PA, you either leave as soon as you

can, or you never leave. We can’t even say we’re a one-stoplight town, because

we don’t have a stoplight, just a traffic circle on a minor local highway.

Here in Clayton, everyone knows everyone, and gossip and rumors are a way of

life.

So, when my high school sweetheart leaves our son and me for a woman in

another state, it’s the talk of the town for months, if not years. Even my

motor-mouthed, wild child of a best friend, Cora, can’t rustle up enough

trouble to keep my name off their lips for more than a week or two.

So, when I meet a handsome, single man not from Clayton, I assume he’s just

passing through.

It was just supposed to be a night of fun with my BFF before school starts—one

last hurrah before lesson plans and homework and packing lunches and school

pickup lines take over everything. It wasn’t supposed to lead to an intense,

sizzling connection—an attraction which despite my most vehement denials goes

far beyond the physical.

The real question now is…will it end in another heartbreak for me and my son,

or could it become a Happily Ever After?