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Second Chance Series

Comes with a Free Short Story Introduction

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Where It All Started

This is the background story for all the characters in the series.

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Back Where It Began Book One

Two people, two high school crushes, who never knew how the other felt and yet somehow fate had put them together years after graduation.

Sylvia Taylor had fallen madly in love with her old high school classmate. What had started as a high school crush turned into just two old friends hanging out with getting to know each other better and catching up, turned into months of seeing each other regularly. She never anticipated she would fall in love with him. Not after her last relationship had left her with walls up and heart guarded. It felt like as soon as she let the walls come down, it would all shatter around her. It was a Saturday morning in February when the dream romance came to a crashing end.

Wes Hamilton had the biggest crush on Sylvia Taylor in high school. So, when she reached out to him about his motorcycle, he jumped at the chance to get to know her now and spend time with her. He never imagined that he would fall in love with her. His past marriage had put such a bad taste in his mouth that he swore off relationships. In the end, it would be that bad taste and fear of it failing, which caused him to never tell her how he felt. So, he ended up doing the one thing he said he never wanted to do, hurt her.

Five months after their breakup that had left her devastated, she had no choice but to make that phone call that would change their lives forever. She never expected what happened next.

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Starting Again Book Two

Lana Thomas-Richardson had graduated from high school and went to the University of Florida heartbroken and devastated by her breakup with her soulmate and love of her life, Greg. Her dream was to play ball at UNF and go to nursing school, but he wanted her to give up her dream and follow him to college. They ended up agreeing to breakup at least through college. Now she had just went through a difficult divorce from a guy she met in college, Larry, but never really loved him like Greg. Now seeing Greg for the first time in years at their best friends wedding, what will happen next? She just needs sex, or so she thinks.

Greg Straton, the bachelor NFL star quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, had graduate high school and went to Duke University. He had a mutual, but not wanting breakup with his high school sweetheart before leaving for college. He told her he would come back for her, but by the time he did, she was married. Now she’s divorce and they are back in contact, he wants her back and will not stop until she gives in.

Can these two old high school flames find love again and settle down?

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A Fresh Start Book Three

Dwayne Hamilton thought he had it all. He was living the high life. He was single and enjoying it, until the day he ran into his old high school crush, Denise Brown. She was still the sexiest woman he’d ever met.

Dwayne had become a huge player and as millionaire who started his own gaming app, he didn’t have to look for women, they found him. No one would ever believe that he was the nerd in high school and not a popular kid. He never got over the one he let get away. Now back in contact with her after his brother and Sylvia’s wedding, can he get her to look at him as more than an old friend?

Denise Brown had been living in Hollywood Florida for years now. There was no one special in her life. She had been busy building her career. But all of that changed when she saw Dwayne at the wedding. Will she finally have the chance to tell him how she has always felt about him?

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Love For The Taking Book Four

Chris Shafer moved to Miami to help his best friend Wes run the construction company. Chris had been Wes’ foreman since Wes started the company. After Wes and Sylvia got married, Wes picked up and moved to Miami where Sylvia opened a new boutique. Wes offered him a partnership if he would move to Miami and help him rebuild the company.

Chris accepted because it gives him the chance to really own his own business outside of his family company. His wife Becky wasn’t having it. She wanted to stay close to her family and was tired of waiting for Chris to go work for his dad and stop the craziness of wanting to be his own man. This was the last straw for her. She told him she wasn’t moving.

Now separated, Chris falls for Sylvia's new Miami boutique store manager, Maggie.

Maggie Lewis hadn’t been in a serious relationship and wasn't looking for love. One heartbreak was enough for her. She only wanted a fling, just a few nights here and there to scratch her itch. But in walk’s this fine man and rocks her world. Can she hold to her guns, or will she let him in her heart?

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A New Beginning Book Five

Monica Taylor and her husband Bryan finally called it quits after ten years of marriage and two kids. Monica had tried to be happy. She guessed they both had tried to make the best out of their situation. But Bryan’s infidelity was the last of the glue that held their marriage together. She had no idea how long it had been going on, but it took once for her to find out for her to decide that enough was enough. He never wanted to hold down a job, was verbally abusive, wasn’t there for the boys, she just couldn’t take anymore. She filed for divorce after kicking him out.

She was happy with her life, but Monte walks back in and turns it upside down.

Monte Jones is fresh out of the Marines and runs into the woman in high school that stole his heart. Can he get her to take another chance at love?