Sign-In
Cart
The Backup Husband: A Later-in-Life Romantic Comedy
Paperback
Publisher: Trevor Jensen
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She made the promise as a joke.
Twenty-five years later, he shows up to keep it.
At twenty-five, Megan Cho-Brennan and Justin Okafor-Reyes made a drunken pact on a cocktail napkin: if they were both still single at fifty, they would marry each other.
It was ridiculous.
It was hilarious.
It was never supposed to happen.
Now Megan is fifty, divorced, successful, and perfectly content with the life she's built. She owns three thriving bakeries, spoils her granddaughter, manages everyone else's crises, and has carefully eliminated every unnecessary complication from her world.
Then Justin appears on her front porch carrying a laminated copy of the agreement.
The same thoughtful, dependable man she once knew has become a bridge engineer, a widower, and somehow even more impossible to ignore. He isn't looking for money. He isn't looking for rescuing. And he definitely isn't joking.
He's simply here because he made a promise.
Determined to send him home, Megan sets out to prove why the pact is absurd, impractical, and completely impossible. Unfortunately, Justin refuses to cooperate. Worse, he keeps fixing things-broken gates, family tensions, community squabbles, and cracks in her carefully organized life that she didn't know were there.
As rumors spread through the world's nosiest cul-de-sac, her best friend starts taking bets on the outcome, her children launch an investigation, and the entire neighborhood becomes invested in whether Megan's mysterious visitor is a romantic hero or a very patient lunatic.
But the more time Megan spends with Justin, the harder it becomes to dismiss the one possibility she never planned for:
What if the promise was never the reason he came?
Filled with laugh-out-loud humor, unforgettable characters, small-town chaos, and a deeply satisfying later-in-life romance, The Backup Husband is a heartwarming romantic comedy about second chances, unexpected love, and discovering that being wanted can be far more frightening-and far more wonderful-than being needed.
Perfect for readers who love witty romantic comedies, mature protagonists, found family, and stories that prove it's never too late for a happily-ever-after.
Also from
Jensen, Trevor
Shadows At Misty Cove: To uncover the truth, she'll have to trust the man who buried it.
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Paramedic She Came Home To: A Small-Town Medical Romance of Homecoming, Family, and Second Chances
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Forgotten Symphony: She left the stage behind. But the music-and the man-never let her go
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
Table For Two: A Heartfelt Romance Where Love Finds You When You Least Expect It
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
Lost & Found Along The Coast: A novel about love, loss, and the road that changes everything
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The House That Chose Us: Two Strangers. One Year. One House That Knew Them Both
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Dummy Between Us: He Kept The Mannequin, She Kept The Grudge, A Second-Chance Medical Romcom
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Match Score: When an Algorithm Predicts Love, Two Rivals Refuse to Believe It
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
Career Fair Collision: A Returning-to-Campus Second-Chance Romcom: A Returning-to-Campus Second-Chance Romcom
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Version of You I Was Promised: A Romantic Comedy About Love, Algorithms, and Bad Timing
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
The Fake Dating Protocol: A Spicy Tech Workplace Romcom: A Spicy Tech Workplace Romcom
Jensen, Trevor
Paperback
Also in
Romance
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, Book 2)
Kimberly Lemming
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover