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Clean Second Chance Romance Books
Second chance romance is for readers who think most people only get one real shot at this. And the lucky ones get two.
The hard part of writing second chance is finding a reason the couple broke up that's big enough to be believable, but small enough that they can come back from it. The best books get that math right. The version told in two timelines is my favorite. You read the present knowing they're apart, then the past shows you how happy they were, and you put the pieces together as you go.
Every book on this page is a clean second chance romance with no spice. Closed door if at all. What you'll find here: the high school sweethearts who never really got over each other, the divorced couple who learn how to make each other laugh again, and the first love who walks back into a hometown the other swore they'd left for good. Read these when you want to believe people can come back from things.
Dear Henry, Love Edith
The One Who Holds Me
#4 in Sovereign Love
Second Chance Christmas Cracker Crush
#9 in Christmas Kisses & Cookie Crumbs
Misgivings
First Love, Second Draft
Love at Teamsgiving
#6 in Nebraska Knights
Raine, Raine, Run Away
#1 in The Covewood Series
Behind Enemy Bylines
Penalties and Proposals
#7 in Love on Thin Ice
Home Run Heart
#2 in Kitt's Harbor
The Rebound Play
#2 in Love on Thin Ice
Brown Roses
#1 in Flower Series
The Enemy
#2 in It Happened in Charleston
Get Lost with You
#2 in Rock Bottom Love
The Holiduel
Merry Kismet
#2 in Gift-Wrapped Romance
The Sands of Sea Blue Beach
The Christmas Catch
We'll Always Have Summer
#3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
Brighter than Before
Stay this Christmas
#3 in Magnolia Ridge
Emerald City Hearts
#1 in Cliffside City Romance
Dropping the Ball
It's Not Summer Without You
#2 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
That Time We Kissed Under the Mistletoe
#4 in Abieville Love Stories
Mr Billionaire Boss Grump
#3 in Mr Grumps
Missed Messages & Mixtapes
#2 in The Moore Bros
The Dating Charade
The Cowboy's Chocolate Covered Christmas
#10 in Christmas Kisses & Cookie Crumbs
All in for Christmas
Love's Direction
#1 in The Way Home
Falling Like Leaves
A Sugarcoated Second Chance
#6 in Valentine's Midlife Meet Cute
Merry Ex-mas
Mistletoe Face Off
Memories of Summer
#3 in Seasons of Sugar Creek (The Fletcher Family)
Pistachio Craze for the Holidays
#7 in Christmas Kisses & Cookie Crumbs
The Parent Playbook
#5 in Love on Thin Ice
The Second Story Bookshop
Kate Landry Has a Plan (Beignets for Two)
#2 in Beignets for Two
The Words We Lost (A Fog Harbor Romance)
#1 in A Fog Harbor Romance
One Little Chance
#3 in Sweet River Series
The Summer I Turned Pretty
#1 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
Same Time Next Summer
The One You're With
The Bridge
Sense and Suitability
The Wedding Dress Christmas
One More Song
#2 in Sweet Peach
Prescription for a Frozen Heart
Rock and a Hard Place
#3 in Wells Family
Before and After
#1 in The Vals
But He's My One Regret
#2 in But He's a Carter Brother
Love's Beacon
#2 in The Way Home
Returning to Romance
#2 in Sunny Banks
Redd, Whit & Blue
#2 in Nebraska Knights
The Twelve Holidates
Bookshop by the Sea
Love Redesigned
#1 in Some Kind of Love
How to Kiss Your Best Friend
#1 in How to Kiss a Hawthorne
No One But You, Oreva
#1 in Soul Sisters
Just Friends
Rose Colored Glasses
Merritt and Her Childhood Crush
#1 in Oakley Island
The Buy-In
#1 in Love Stories in Sheet Cake
Julia Monroe Begins Again (Beignets for Two)
#1 in Beignets for Two
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