A small-town, secret-baby, second-chance standalone romance.. “Representing the most perfect example of quality or class” ~ Quintessential. A trip back to the small Indiana town of Riverbend to finalize my grandmother’s last will and testament throws my world off its axis. I wasn’t prepared to learn the stipulations of her will or that she’d left her beloved mercantile Quintessential Treasures to my college summertime love, Kandace Sheers.Imagine my greater surprise when I learn about the secret that’s been roaming Riverbend for the last five years. Here are a couple of hints:She’s five years old.She has her mother’s silky auburn hair and my golden eyes.The answer is simple.I take responsibility for the girl and go back to Chicago where my life awaits.It turns out, Grandma had other plans because life’s never that simple.. Have you been Aleatha’d?. Enjoy this sweet, funny, and sexy, secret-baby, second-chance, contemporary stand-alone romance that brings back the feelings of what it’s like to be young and in love. A stand-alone and one of Aleatha Romig’s ‘Lighter Ones,’ QUINTESSENTIALLY - the ONE.