Charlie in Progress: A Small Town Women's Fiction Novel (Lost and Found)

Charlie Young has always been someone else’s something—Alex’s younger sister, her parents’ afterthought, and the fun distraction in a man’s life but never the main event. She’s quick, she’s funny, and she has made an art form of pretending that none of it lands.But now she’s hoarding a major secret: she’s pregnant. By accident. With a man who made her feel safe…until he politely made it clear that fatherhood wasn’t in his plans. Now Charlie is back in her childhood home, battling with her mother’s quiet disapproval and her father’s spectacular disinterest, secretly throwing up at work, and confronting a suspicion she’s been avoiding for years: she has never actually given herself permission to matter. The pregnancy is the least of it. The real question is who she becomes when she finally stops pretending to be fine. With biting humor and raw honesty, Charlie in Progress is about growing up when you were supposed to have done that already, and what happens when you finally stop being the most convenient version of yourself.