Good Timing

They can make each other laugh. Can they make each other a priority?At forty-seven, Nadine Huxford appreciates a quiet breakfast after a proper night's sleep. What she hasn't planned for is Curtis Fenmore across the table: forty-nine, a bookbinder with careful hands, a dry sense of humor, and a way of looking at her that makes an ordinary morning worth anticipating.Their first dates bring shared jokes, secondhand books, and kisses neither wants to rush. Nadine likes the man beneath the workshop apron. Curtis wants more than a few stolen hours with a woman whose laugh stays with him long after she goes home.But wanting each other doesn't clear a calendar. Nadine has hospital shifts, professional training, and a teenage daughter with plans of her own. Curtis has a business, a grown son, and family requests he is far too quick to accept. When uncertainty and well-meant favors keep pushing their time together aside, attraction starts asking for something harder than another available morning.Can two people who know how to show up for everyone else learn to stop treating their own happiness as the easiest thing to cancel?Good Timing is a warm, closed-door contemporary romance about desire in midlife and making room for love without asking a full life to disappear.