This steamy contemporary small-town romance is a prequel novella to the Mystic Point series. It can be read as a standalone. It has salty language, open door love scenes, and a happily-ever-after.Second chances are for suckers.Or so Ethan Thomas believes. A year ago, he walked away from his wife—the woman he has loved since he was ten years old—after believing she betrayed him. Since then he’s … betrayed him. Since then he’s settled in his hometown of Mystic Point, Connecticut among old friends, with a new job and a jaded outlook on life. As long as he can keep his estranged wife Lainie out of his mind, he has a chance to live contentedly, if not happily. Happiness is overrated, anyway.
Lainie Thomas has spent the past year in a solitary confinement of her own making. She once had everything—a successful career, a home in a big city, and the man of her dreams. But she took it for granted and ended up losing it all. Now she’s been given one last shot at redemption, one last chance to show Ethan she never betrayed him, one last time to convince him their marriage is worth fighting for.
But can she convince him to love her once more or is she too late to reclaim the happily-ever-after they both deserve?
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The first book in the Mystic Point series it is book 0 this is Lainie and Ethan’s story and their second chance. They separated because of not talking to each other and Ethan thinking the worst of her. Lainie has come to Mystic Point and has given herself to see if they can get their marriage back together. They will have ups and down, and a woman who will try to keep them apart. I enjoyed reading this story of how these two find their happy ending. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is book three in the Mystic Point series and although it can be read as a standalone I recommend taking on the series, you will not be disappointed. I really loved this story of Ethan and Lainie even though I found it heartbreaking. They were such a happy couple with everything going for them then one day, Ethan believes that Lainie betrays him. Ethan leaves and returns to his hometown of Mystic Point in hopes to forget about Lainie and at least find some resemblance of happiness in life.It has been one year and Lainie feels like she is ready to fight to win back her old life and prove to Ethan that she never betrayed him. This was a heartbreaking road but it was a really good ride to see what happens and if a HEA is in their near future. I also love seeing the previous book characters make an appearance. On to book four…..
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Ethan and Lainie are childhood sweethearts who married but are now on the cusp of a divorce after a series of circumstances that happened a year ago. Lainie is coming to town to deliver the divorce papers personally, which they’ve been shipping back and forth but neither of them has signed. She’s going to be in town for two weeks to help get her parent’s house ready to rent again, and she asks Ethan for a second chance during that time. Ethan has a lot of resentment about what transpired in the past.
This book was so well done. I’m a sucker for a good second chance at romance story, and this is one of the good ones. The author seems to have an amazing sense of what two people in this circumstance would be going through mentally and emotionally through the various stages as they try to find their way back to each other. It isn’t easy because they are different people from what they were before the events that changed everything, and they are at different places in their acceptance of responsibility and placing of blame. There are parts in this book that, if you get emotionally invested in the characters, will make you cry, just hoping that these two wounded souls can make their way back to each other. In particular, I thought the first near sex scene was brutally honest about where they would have been at that precise point in time.
As I have read the other two books in the series, I enjoyed seeing Calista and Will again before they found their HEAs. Over the course of this series, I have quite enjoyed getting to know this little town of Mystic Point, and I’m looking forward to Juliet’s story, which is up next.
If you enjoy a second chance contemporary romance, this is one of the better ones I’ve read, and you might find it a wonderful, but emotional, read.
Lainie is a workaholic who had it all until she didn’t, Ethan was her husband but he left her after feeling betrayed with first talking about it as he despises confrontations. The two were flawed but I just can’t get over him leaving her so easily.
It’s poignant and heartbreaking.
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