Second Chance

Second chance romance reunites two people who were once a couple, or nearly one, years after it fell apart. The old attraction is still there and so are the old wounds; the question is whether this time will end differently.

Few tropes carry so much feeling with so little setup. The two already know each other, so every gesture has a history and every line an echo. Readers don't have to wait for trust to form. They get to watch it being repaired.

The pattern is easy to see. There's a gap of five to ten years and a reason for the break that was never said out loud. Something forces them back together: a wedding, a death in the family, a car dying on a country road in the town she left.

In “The Last Repair” your car gives out in the small town where your ex-fiancé now runs the towing service. In “Icebound Hearts” you are the captain who needs medical clearance from the woman he walked away from five years ago. And in “The Last Frontier” a kiss from eight years back is waiting for an answer at a Tuscan wedding.

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