After finding out his friends find his nonstop quest for love to be a little excessive. Derek has decided to put a stop to dating altogether.

Now, he's stuck in a no-go zone just in time for someone new to enter the friend group.

Elizabeth is a single mom who has been out of the dating pool for a long time, but when she meets Derek, the sweet and caring friend of a friend, she thinks things are about to change.

When things don't go quite as she expects, she accepts his friendship and begins a journey to help him reinvent his father's failing hardware store to keep the legacy alive.

Spending hours together working, they begin to see that their feelings are not so easily brushed aside and when push comes to shove, their friendship blossoms into a romance they'll never forget.

But when things get hard for the hardware store, and real life starts to butt in to their relationship, they have to decide if they can weather the storm, or if things will end for good.

Then You Happened is a friends-to-lovers, single parent, slow burn romance. It is an interconnected standalone.

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• Literature & FictionContemporary FictionRomance

• Publication Date: February 24, 2026
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• Print Length: 406 Pages
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