Nick of Time — J.Q. Jones

Manuela Mendez, the reclusive cook at Davis Ranch, is ready to restart her career as a chef. Manny goes to Houston to have a much-needed weekend alone to think. She meets and is instantly attracted to David Smythe Davis. David is in town from London as he ends an engagement to a woman he does not love. This business trip's an opportunity to put distance between his would be fiancee and pushing parents. He is unprepared for the mystery woman he meets at the hotel. They spend a weekend of passionate, non-safe sex. Manny goes home determined to open a restaurant and David returns to London to end his bogus engagement. Manny's plans have to adjust when she finds out she's pregnant. As she begins to plan her life as a single mom, David arrives at the ranch to visit. Manny and David face the responsibility being parents with a stranger and the opportunity to make it so much more.