Masquerade Mistake: A Single Mom, Secret Baby, Second Chance Romance (Sunset Bay) by Crissi Langwell

Seven years ago, Claire Myers spent one unforgettable night with a masked stranger, then walked away without exchanging names. She planned to leave Sunset Bay, start fresh in college, and never think about that night again—until a missed period changed everything. Now she’s a single mom, devoted to her son and the quiet life she’s built. Between running her small book-swag business, navigating complicated feelings about her own mother, and keeping her world predictable for six-year-old Finn, dating isn’t even on her radar. She has a rhythm, a home she finally feels safe in, and a future that depends on stability. So when her best friend insists on setting her up with her cousin, Claire agrees only to stop the nagging. What she doesn’t expect is to sit across from a man who feels strangely familiar—his voice, his smile, even the way he puts her at ease. It takes one conversation for everything she thought she’d buried to rise to the surface. Ethan Chance is the man from that night. He just doesn’t realize it—and he has no idea Finn exists. As they grow closer, Claire finds herself torn between the life she’s carefully built and the hope of something more. But when Ethan admits he never wants children, the truth she’s been avoiding becomes impossible to ignore. Revealing it could change all three of their lives; keeping it could break her heart before anything has a chance to begin. Read more