Second Chance Romance: A totally uplifting and hilarious enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy
Carol Mason
340 pages
Bookouture
published July 22, 2024
About the book
Hate at first sight. Love at long last?
Moira is forty-two, newly single thanks to her cheating husband, and totally, one hundred per cent, over men. Frank is forty-five, irritatingly good-looking, and the author of the world’s greatest love story. If only his charm on the page translated to real life… Unfortunately, their barely adult children are convinced they’re in love. And they’re eloping. To Greece. Without their parents.
Moira married young and lived to regret it. She’s desperate for her daughter not to make the same mistake. And the last thing Frank wants is to spend future Thanksgivings stuck together. So they make a pact: to find their kids, before it’s too late.
But as their Mamma-Mia-in-reverse journey leads to sandy beaches, picture-perfect cobbled streets, bickering by candlelight, and into their hotel’s hot tub… Moira is unable to ignore the prickle of heat under Frank’s gaze. Nor the sparks that fly as they really talk for the first time.
Will they end up going their separate ways as planned? Or has this unexpected trip given them the second chance at love they didn’t know they needed?
A sizzling, hilarious, heartfelt enemies-to-lovers story that will make you both laugh out loud and swoon hard for this second chance at love… Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Catherine Walsh and Annabel Monaghan’s Nora Goes Off Script.
My Review
I love when authors realize not everyone is 20 and create middle aged main characters. Especially in a romance. Moira and Frank are in their 40s and have adult children. So refreshing. And the idea of this one is great. Their children met and are in love and planning to get married when the two go chasing after them to try and stop them. Seems like the perfect plot for a movie, if they still made romances.
Second chances and enemies to lovers are at the heart of this romance. It’s billed as a rom com, but I found it a little slim on the comedy, but had heart in the romance part. It took me a while to warm up to the main characters but I was rooting for them in the end.
Frolicking and waterskiing in Greece will always be a yes for me. This was a quick entertaining beach read.
About the author
Carol Mason is the Amazon Charts and Kindle Store #1 bestselling author After You Left (more than 350,000 copies sold), The Secrets of Married Women, The Last Time We Met, The Shadow Between Us, Send Me A Lover, Little White Secrets and Between You and Me.
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