Second Chance Summer
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Perfectly bingeable for fans of Bridgerton and Emily in Paris, Second Chance Summer is a romantic feel-good story about finding true love in the least likely of places... Somewhere along the way, Charlotte Freemont stopped believing in happily-ever-afters. It's one of the reasons why she ran out on her own wedding instead of settling for anything less than she deserved. Now instead of the cross-country road trip she had planned, she's stranded in a small town with a rough and hardened hunk of a man who's got secrets of his own. Luke Wilder doesn't have time for the sassy brunette who he's sure won't stick around anyways. He's had his heart broken before and there's no use getting bent out of shape over someone who's just going to move on. But this newcomer isn't at all like he assumed and their chemistry? Well, explosive is too tame a word. Will Luke open up and risk heartbreak again? And can Charlotte put her past behind her and trust in love again? Come find out in this sweet and sizzling small-town romance from Poppy St. James! Author's Note: This book was previously published under an alternate pseudonym.
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Sometimes You Find Yourself By Accident. Let's be perfectly upfront: I don't have one qualm whatsoever in telling you right here, right now that by the end of this book, the couple is together and everything is awesome. THIS IS A ROMANCE BOOK, and therefore this is a given. :D
With that out of the way, this was actually a fun and fast one, reading seemingly much faster than its near 300 page length would generally suggest. It is fairly low angst, as much as that can be said of a romance featuring someone running from their life and another person trying to recover from his. It is utterly steeped in small town Southern charm, even if rooted in Texas (where they somehow think they are different from other Southern towns - you're not, and football is as much a god anywhere in the rural South as it is in Texas ;) ). And it has all of the requisite fish-out-of-water / good ol' boy hijinx. The one thing it doesn't have, which some romance fans will hate and others love, is that there is little more than kissing in this book, even as the couple is shown in bed overnight together. So for those “sweet” / “clean” romance types, this one is for you. If you have to have sex in your romance books... just know up front this one isn't that. It was a great read regardless of that point, and a solid way to pass a couple of hours on a long summer day. Very much recommended.