The Best Worst Thing Release Party with Lauren Okie

Celebrate the release of The Best Worst Thing by Lauren Okie at In Bloom Bookery!

Join us for a special evening featuring a book signing with Lauren, followed by a fun bracelet-making craft night. Make some friendship bracelets, or use the charms to make a kindle charm or custom bookmark!

Your ticket includes all the supplies you’ll need to create your own friendship bracelets. You can also choose a ticket option that comes with a copy of The Best Worst Thing.

Come meet the author, get your book signed, and enjoy a creative night of community and crafts! ✨🫶

• Date: October 23, 2025
• Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
• Location: In Bloom Bookery

• General Admission: $12; includes admission and the necessary materials to make your own friendship bracelets.
• Admission & Book Bundle: $31; includes admission to the event, the materials to create friendship bracelets, and a copy of The Best Worst Thing by Lauren Okie.

Lauren Okie studied English and American Literature at NYU. When she’s not mining old traumas or blocking sex scenes on the backs of grocery lists, Lauren works as a copywriter. Originally from Miami, she lives with her husband and daughter in Hermosa Beach, California. This is her debut novel.

From a stunning new voice in romance, Lauren Okie’s The Best Worst Thing is an intimate story about starting over, second chances, and two people who cannot help falling into each other’s orbit once again. Told with humor and heart, this is the perfect book for romance readers and women’s fiction fans alike!

All things considered, Nicole Speyer has a pretty amazing life. At least that’s what she tells herself. She’s got a beautiful house, a relatively successful fertility podcast, and a perfect husband, Gabe. The only thing that’s less than ideal is her years-long struggle with infertility—and how, with every passing day, she and Gabe seem to drift a little further apart.

But then, mere hours after a Hail Mary embryo transfer to her gestational carrier, Nicole discovers Gabe’s been sleeping with their dog walker, and her world turns upside down. Suddenly, a jobless, childless, and now-husbandless Nicole finds herself at the doorstep of somebody she tried to say goodbye to a long time ago.

Logan Milgram: a former colleague with serious golden retriever energy who happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, a colossal nerd, and legitimately kind of hot. When Logan opens his door that night, it’s like no time has passed. And as they fall back into each other’s lives, Nicole starts recognizing herself in the mirror again. She even begins to like what she sees. And then, like a cruel joke, she gets the news she’s spent a lifetime waiting for: her surrogate is finally pregnant.

As her relationship with Logan develops from a blast-from-the-past fling into something much deeper, Nicole struggles to balance her past, present, and future. Racing against the clock, she must learn to forgive her body for falling short and recognize that sometimes, it’s the biggest betrayals in life that set us free. With everything on the line, can Nicole accept love from the greatest man she’s ever known . . . even if it’s nothing like the story she’d written for herself?

Event Venue

In Bloom Bookery, 42031 Main Street, Temecula, United States