Used book – So Close to Happiness, Janice Kay Johnson, Catherine Berthet

Laurel would give anything to have a baby, but a victim of sexual assault when she was young, she wants to have it "all by herself" and raise it alone too. When she confides this plan to Caleb, her closest and most tender friend, he refuses to let her turn to any man other than him and immediately offers to help her conceive the child, and then host her during the pregnancy. Overwhelmed by Caleb's generosity, Laurel tries to be frank and warns him: because she cannot bring herself to commit to a man, Caleb will have to give up his paternal prerogatives as soon as the child is born - and return Laurel's freedom...