When I first heard about this story and how it has Deaf representation, I knew I immediately needed to get my hands on it. There aren't nearly enough stories like this and definitely need to be more. This one was absolutely amazing. Well-written, authentic, and everything a romance should be.

Nolan and Izzy's relationship is interesting to watch unfold. Knowing the lengths Izzy went through to find Nolan for the sake of their son Archie. I appreciated how it wasn't a secret baby scenario like it usually is, but that she didn't know how to find him and made the effort to locate him after their one night stand. Nolan doubts himself and his ability to be a good father, but he needed to give himself more credit.

About That Night was perfection. The romance was swoonworthy, the characters were fleshed out, and Deaf culture (from what I could tell) felt like it was done right. Can't wait to read another book by Laura Brown!

About That Night is the second book in the Matzah Ball Surprise series, but it was fine as a stand-alone.  It was well written with a storyline that was developed. The characters were genuine and interesting.  It was a short book but a sweet romance.
Izzy Fineberg found herself pregnant after spending one night with a hot Deaf man.  She did not catch the man’s entire name since she was still learning ASL.  Now she is starting a new job at a Deaf agency and finds out her new boss is the father of Archie, her son, and the agency has a strict “no dating coworkers” policy.  
Nolan Holtzman had never expected Izzy to show up at the agency he just started working at.  Learning he was a father was a huge shock, but he was determined to be there for his son.  He volunteered for Archie and Izzy to stay with him when she needed a place to stay.  Both needed their jobs, so they had to keep their relationship a secret.

Another amazing book by this author. I will read everything she writes. An enjoyable storyline, fantastic characters and some amazing chemistry. 5 stars.

Cute story. One night stand, accidental pregnancy , single parent, second chance at love. Lizzie had a drunken night at a ASL function. She didn’t a name so when she realized she was pregnant she didn’t know where to look. 2 years later she walks into the office of het new job and there he is. Nolan left town and started a new job in NY. Now he is back. The girl from his one night stand wasn’t far from his mind. Imagine his surprise when he sees her at his new job. A even bigger surprise, she had his son.Nolan is not you typical hero. He is good looking but a little nerdy and insecure. He is always messing something up.  I love the ASL storyline.  The fact that Nolan was deaf was written smoothly into the storyline. The author paid attention to details that the average hearing person would not think about. Even those details did not detract from the story. Lizzie was raising Archie on her own but her sister was her support system. Again the reality of being a young, single parent was shown in scenes. I like how realistic the author made things.

Izzy and Nolan had a one night and wouldnt you know the condom didnt work and 9 months later comes archie. 9 months after his birth she starts a new job and is introduced to the one and only Nolan. Once she told him about that night he was determined to be there for his son. He thought he was nothing but a mistake so he backed away but in the end he made sure that being deaf was never going to get in the way.

I really enjoyed this book. It included a cute baby, a second chance story. And I believe this is the first book that I have read that included a deaf character in a romance. I loved how the  writer included ASL into the story.. Great writer with well developed characters! 

I received an advance copy from the publisher for a voluntary, honest review!

A thrown together family faces challenges at every corner, but the rewards are just too hard to overlook. This sweet romance that was also full of angst was perfectly put together. I loved little Archie, he added just the right spice and humor. Provided by NetGalley.

A cute read that mixes some tropes. Izzy and Nolan had a one-night stand going their separate ways after it, but there are more than good memories out of it, ergo, hello baby Archie. 
Well-written with imperfect characters that you can relate to, their mistakes, their strength, their attraction, and their road to a HEA. 
I had never read a book with one of the MCs being deaf and it was so eye-opening the way the author gave, at least to me, an introduction to the deaf community. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book received from the publisher via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Two adorable books in a row? How about YES. This was so cute! I really love the representation for the deaf community!

The child was absolutely adorable. (If ya didnt know, I love children! They are soooooo cute 🥺). Their relationship was so cute. I love how short and quick it was!

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲: Kids, Learning to be a Father, Parents, Family, Cuteness Overload.

All it took was one night and Izzy Fineberg found herself pregnant but she never got the handsome man's name. She stayed in the area hoping to run into him again but no luck. Luckily her sister and her fiance, have helped Izzy navigate the last few months of being a single parent.

Nolan Holtzman thought he'd never see Izzy again, often thinking of their short time together. Now here she is the recent hire and they'll be working together. The no dating policy means he'll have to keep his distance from her. Nothing can prepare him for the news Izzy delivers about the results of their one night together.

When Izzy and their son need a place to stay, Nolan invites them to his home. And all this time together is not helping calm down their attraction. 

I really enjoyed this sweet little romance. That our main characters had met before was interesting because they still had an attraction to one another, and both wanted to keep their dream job helping the Deaf community.  This is a good palate cleanser between books. Definitely worth a shot.

Thanks to Entangled Publishing, NetGalley, and the author for this ARC copy to review.

Izzy spent one night with a sexy stranger and it changed the course of her life. She has now found that she was going to be a single mother and had no way of contacting the father as their sign language communication wasn’t as clear as it should have been. With the help of her family, she has finished school and is ready to start her new job only to find out that her baby’s father is also her co-worker.

Nolan has worked hard to overcome the mistakes of his past so finding out Izzy is not only his co-worker but that they have a child together is a surprise he wasn’t expecting. He is struggling to not only deal with the uncertainty that due to no role model he doesn’t have the skill set to be a father but also the fact that their relationship could mean the end of one or both of their jobs if it is discovered.

This is a touching story about the challenges that not only the people who are deaf face but those that are closest to them as well. I enjoyed seeing them maneuver not only their relationship with their son Archie but with each other as well.

This was a sweet story with a very cute baby. There are no surprises and what little conflict there is was manufactured mainly by Nolan and Izzy's overdramatic reactions. I did love the representation of the deaf community and Izzy teaching Archie to sign from birth. The story was predictable but even knowing where it was going to end up I still enjoyed the ride..

Surprise baby books are not my thing. To be honest, I don’t find much about babies romantic at all and I’m not one of those people who think HEAs have to come with a wedding and 2.5 kids. But I loved Matzah Ball Surprise so I decided to take a chance on this book, and I’m glad I did! Besides the surprise baby, it’s also got the workplace romance and forced proximity tropes.

Nine-month-old Archie might be the result of a drunk hook-up with a guy whose name she didn’t know, but he’s the center of Izzy’s life. So while starting a new job with a Deaf advocacy org is important to her – she wants to be able to financially support her little family by moving out of her sister’s place – it’s also bittersweet. And things only get worse when she realizes her new supervisor is the hot Deaf hook-up – and the father of her kid. Nolan’s been a screw-up for most of his life, but the situation with Izzy takes the cake. How can he possibly go from bachelor pads and video games to being a dad, especially when he never had a father figure in his own life? To further complicate things, the spark of attraction that got them into this mess in the first place is still there. Can they navigate coparenting and working together, or are Izzy and Nolan set for another massive disaster?

“Father” was a meaningless word to him that could mean sperm donor, and considering Archie’s creation, the same could be said about the next generation.”


Izzy is fiercely independent. Though she’s had to rely on her sister, Gaby (the heroine of the previous book) and her fiancé, Levi, to manage graduating college while pregnant and then with a baby, Archie’s nine months old now and she’s ready to stop relying on them so much. But navigating breastfeeding, working and childcare is hard, and adding in navigating some kind of relationship – coparent or romantic – with Nolan is overwhelming and exhausting to someone who feels like she’s barely holding it together as a twenty-three-year-old single mother. While he doesn’t have the same life complications as Izzy, Nolan’s convinced he’s a screw-up. No matter what good thing he has, he always manages to screw it up, and that’s been true since he was born. He was the result of an unplanned pregnancy and his dad wasn’t present in his life, so he’s worried about how to be a father figure and partly convinced that he’s going to mess up Izzy and Archie’s lives just by being in them. Besides Archie, their relationship is also complicated by the fact that their employer has a strict no dating policy. That, along with Nolan’s self-doubt, provides most of the angst in the story. The way their relationship unfolds slowly was just so sweet, and I loved how consent-focused it was as well.

“The kid resembled the powerful computer character that could unlock worlds and opportunities, but he didn’t have a clue how to unlock him.”


This book was overall less humorous than the previous one, though Archie provided a lot of comedy. Nine-month-olds are, well, chaos monsters (or at least mine were) and there’s a lot of new parent humor that brought me right back to those days, diaper changes and all. I liked that, along with the romantic relationship between Izzy and Nolan, it also focused on the relationship that Nolan has with Archie. There’s a particularly sweet moment where Nolan’s trying to soothe a fussy Archie and suddenly realizes that his son is signing “milk.” It’s a lightbulb moment for Nolan, and it absolutely made me melt.

I loved the seamless integration of Deaf culture from both characters, from the flashing lights to the special baby monitors to the call out to my alma mater (go RIT Tigers!). While Izzy is far from fluent in ASL, she’s able to communicate well, and most of the dialog is in sign. I loved that his Deafness – and their Jewishness – isn’t a problem or a pain point, it’s just another part of who he is.

Overall, I enjoyed this book even more than the first, and I’ll definitely be picking up whatever Laura Brown writes in the future!

I received an advance review copy of this book from NetGalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

About That Night was one of those books that called to me after reading the blurb. A one night stand turns into an unexpected pregnancy, made complicated by the fact that the man in question was deaf and the woman, barely proficient at signing. Fast forward two years and she see’s the father of her son again, at her new place of employment. That, that right there, is what reeled me in. 

I really, truly enjoyed how the author handled this delicate story. She made both main characters real and relatable. I enjoyed how she depicted Nolan and his reaction to discovering he had a son and the fact that he wasn’t father material, but that he was going to try his hardest at being one. Izzy was a strong woman, she had to be. In her early twenties, in school and pregnant, did not make for easy, but she was lucky to have an incredible support system in her sister and her fiancé. 

Watching Nolan, Izzy and baby Archie get to know one another and lay the framework for a beautiful family, made this a throughly enjoyable romance read. About That Night was my first book by Laura Brown and will most certainly not be my last. TBR and Enjoy.

I loved this surprise baby/office romance!

Izzy never caught the name or number of the one-night-stand that gave her Archie, her 9-month-old son, until her first day on the job when she's introduced to him as his new assistant.  To say that Nolan is shocked is an understatement; the poor guy had absolutely no fatherly role model himself so he's completely adrift in the sea of what-ifs and how-tos.  

This is a sweet, gentle romance that never forgets their amazing chemistry yet doesn't rely on it to drive the romance forward.  There are enough outside conflicts to keep things interesting, but I liked that it was their internal conflicts that were the hardest to overcome.  

I love the decisive HEA and I really appreciated the follow=up on Gaby and Levi's romance (from the earlier book).  This was a truly delightful story and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves contemporary romances, but especially if you're interested in reading about realistic people in the deaf community.  I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

I am so shocked by how fast I read this book. Things happened so smoothly and I could not believe when it was over. 
I loved Izzy and Nolan! From a one night stand, Izzy finds out she’s pregnant but doesn’t know how to find the guy. Months go by and then on her first day of work she comes face to face with him. Izzy knows her son deserves to meet his father but Nolan isn’t confident in his parenting skills. Baby Archie was so cute and was always there to break up the serious moments
This was the first book I’ve read by this author and I loved it. The story flowed so well and I of course was happy they got their HEA
*this was sent to me via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

About That Night features the secret baby trope, which is one of my favorites as long as there is a believable and relatable reason why the father didn't know about the child. In this book, I'm happy to report that the reason was plausible. Izzy and Nolan met at a deaf event when she was an ASL student in college (Izzy is hearing, Nolan is deaf). They had wild chemistry and spent one night together, but because Izzy was not yet fluent in ASL, and was distracted by her attraction to Nolan, she didn't catch his name when he signed it, so when she learned she was pregnant, she had no way to track him down. Eighteen mos. later, she has an adorable 9 month old baby, has graduated college and secured an entry level position with a Deaf not-for-profit, and is gobsmacked when she meets Nolan (now their social media manager) on her first day on the job. 

Nolan and Izzy still have mad chemistry, but now, not only does Izzy have to figure out how to integrate Nolan into  her and her son's life, but they also must contend with the HR rules at their workplace that expressly forbid intimate relationships between co-workers. A large part of the book focused on Nolan learning how to be a father, in spite of his fears that he would not be able to live up to the role due to his own lack of a father and role model. 

I loved that although Nolan had doubts, his deafness was a non-issue, both in his ability to parent but also in his relationships with others. Izzy was strong when she needed to be, but at the same time, she was only 23 and sometimes her age really showed. Initially, after she told Nolan about their son, she got quite unjustifiably angry that he didn't just immediately jump into the role of father, not understanding that he'd been given quite a shock and needed at least a few days to absorb the news. Aside from this, I thought the romance was heartwarming and sweet.

I fell in love with this book simply from the description on NetGalley and the my love for it only grew as I continued to read.

While a romance at heart, this novel captures the challenges of unplanned pregnancies, one-night “flings”, how to overcome your deepest fears, and how to have faith in yourself. Additionally, one of the main characters is Deaf, and I just have so much love and respect for the Deaf community –– this book is impossible to not love!

I could predict a lot of what was going to happen, and that’s okay! But even still, this book is sweet, heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once. I love Izzy and Nolan – and baby Archie!! – so much, and I just know that you will too.

First, I want to thank #netgalley and #entangledteen for providing me with a copy of this to read.

This book was a really cute read. Normally I am not a huge fan of single mom romances, just because I’ve lived the single mom life and these romances, to me it is just unbelievable. However, with this one, I was fully invested in this one because it was believable from the beginning. I also loved the way that Nolan and Izzy reconnected, boss-employee forbidden romances are something I love so I put aside the single mom thing to dive into this one. While it was a shorter read it was completely fulfilling in that romance read, I was looking for with Valentine’s day coming up. If you are looking for a cute romance this one is for you.

This is a good story. The author does a does a realistic job of having the reader getting a feel of the atmosphere surrounding the deaf characters. I love that she made even the baby learn sign language. Izzy and Nolan work great as a couple. Archie makes the most adorable baby. He provides some funny moments in the story. It is a great diversity romantic story.