What if your soulmate arrives the day after you decide to stop looking for her? Hot-shot obstetrician Mercedes Stone is killing it at work, but she has a dirty secret. She's the daughter of a hoarder. She's built her life around her research but when her mother's condition reaches a crisis point, she must drop everything to come home. Lily Thomas is a pediatrician quickly approaching 40 and all she's ever wanted is a family. She's given up on finding Ms. Right, but the day she meets Mercedes – who's taking a temporary job at Lakeside Hospital – is the same day Lily learns she's finally pregnant. They fall for each other hard and fast – it has to be fast because Mercedes is going home in six months to wrap up a vital clinical trial and soon, Lily will have a newborn baby to love. What's the harm in a quick fling? But as Mercedes digs out her mother's house, she begins to realize there's more for her at home than just junk. What she and Lily swore was just a fling is beginning to feel a lot more like… family. Labor of Love is a standalone novel in the bestselling Lakeside Hospital series. The books in this series can be read in any order.