Before You

She was not ready to be a mother. But life had other plans.
Maya is 26, ambitious, and barely holding it all together. Her job is finally taking off, her apartment is finally feeling like hers, and her situationship with Malik - the one man she can't quite quit - is finally easy.
Until a pregnancy test in a Shell station bathroom turns her world upside down.
Positive.
Suddenly, every plan she made is on pause. And Malik? He says he wants to be there, but wanting and doing are two very different things.
Over the next nine months, Maya has to navigate morning sickness at work, a mother with opinions, friends who don't get it, and a body that is changing faster than her heart can keep up. She has to learn how to trust, how to let go, and how to become someone's mother while still learning how to be herself.
Told with unflinching honesty and heart, Before You is for every woman who ever felt unprepared, unseen, and still completely in love with a future she never planned.
A contemporary romance about unplanned pregnancy, Black love, chosen family, and the nine months that change everything.