Reservations

Lucy Bennett is perfectly happy taking herself to dinner. She has a career she loves, a family that refuses to mind its own business, and no interest in treating singlehood like a problem to solve. Then a Valentine's Day reservation glitch seats her across from Daniel Hale. Daniel is divorced, deliberate, and maddeningly good at asking exactly what he means. One shared table becomes a real date. Then another. Soon Lucy is collecting museum tickets, toothbrushes, family invitations-and the unsettling possibility that ordinary life with Daniel might be the most romantic thing she's ever wanted. But loving him does not answer every question she has spent years leaving open: marriage, motherhood, and the shape of a future that belongs to her. To build something lasting, Lucy and Daniel will have to make room for uncertainty-and keep choosing each other without making either one smaller.