What We Didn’t Have Time For: Some love comes to late...but changes everything.

One night of kindness changed everything. One secret kept them apart. Zella is barely holding her life together when she meets Timmy-a grieving mechanic drowning in silence after the loss of his parents. She is trying to escape a home shaped by addiction and broken promises. He is trying to keep his parents' house, his job, and himself from falling apart. Their connection is unexpected, gentle, and brief. For one night, they find warmth in each other: a diner booth, a quiet house, a slow dance, and the kind of tenderness neither of them knew they needed. But morning comes too soon, and fear sends Zella running before either of them can find out what they might become. Weeks later, Zella discovers she is pregnant. Unable to find the courage to tell Timmy, she builds a life around their daughter, Susie, while carrying the weight of the truth alone. Timmy, believing Zella chose to disappear, slowly moves forward-working his way into stability, love, and a future with someone else. But secrets do not stay harmless forever. When Zella finally brings Susie to Timmy's door, the life he has built and the life he never knew existed collide. What follows is a story of love, regret, motherhood, forgiveness, and the painful truth that sometimes the hardest part of loving someone is admitting what fear has cost. What We Didn't Have Time For is a heartfelt novel about the choices we make when we are scared, the people we hurt while trying to survive, and the second chances that arrive only after everything has changed.

Pagina's: 323, Paperback, Independently published