Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get that second chance – in life and in love. That Second Chance Series are stand-alone stories of strong women who battle heartache and loss with a courage and determination to find new paths and true love. What ties them together? A common theme: belief in the beauty of that second chance.Paradise Found is Book Four of That Second Chance Series.How does one see … Second Chance Series.
How does one see truly—with the heart or with the eyes?
Matt Brandon has it all—wealth, power, looks, and talent. Women want him; men want to be like him. When a freak ski accident strips him of one of life’s most basic needs—his sight—he struggles to accept the possibility that his blindness may be permanent.
Enter psychologist Sara Hamilton, a woman who has known her own share of grief and loss and may just be the one person who can help Matt redefine his new world. Sara is every woman’s woman—she’s not a toothpick or a Cosmo girl, has never been prom queen, or dated the blond-haired god with the big white teeth. She’s honest and decent and real…and lives on the perimeter, applauding her patients’ successes, nursing them through their failures, but never acknowledging or accepting what she lacks in her own life. She’s loved and lost once and has been so emotionally scarred, she’s not willing to risk those feelings again.
Of course, she’s never met a man like Matt Brandon. As Matt and Sara explore the delicate balance between “blind” trust and hope, they will discover that sometimes you have to lose everything to find what you are truly looking for…
That Second Chance Series:
Book One: Pulling Home (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Promise)
Book Two: The Way They Were (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Secret)
Book Three: Simple Riches (Also prequel to A Family Affair: Winter)
Book Four: Paradise Found
Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife
Book Six: The Butterfly Garden
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I really loved this book. It is one of the best I have read so far. It is great the way the story was told by the author. The plot unfolds and you learn to know the characters mostly by dialogue interactions between them. There are good descriptions just to give you a picture of the setting or the time of day but not long ones that would make you want to skip them. The author makes you feel like these are really live people and you get to know them and feel their circumstances and root for their happy ever after. I would gladly recommend this book to other readers.
I always enjoy Mary Campisi books. Well written
Love all her books!
Interesting plot. Both characters seemed physically needy but not emotionally.
I have read a couple of Mary Campisi books & have enjoyed both very much. She always throws in enough “real life” issues to separate her from the run of the mill happily ever after books. It gives the characters a bit more depth. Of course, the women are beautiful & the men are strong & strikingly handsome. But somewhere, she will throw in a bit of true humanity. I like that.
Good story
fun book
While I did enjoy the novel, I had to say that I wish she had just a little bit more of a backbone. The male main character was a jerk-hole, and never truly changed. Maybe my viewpoint while reading it was slightly tainted, but I do think, that the Author would have done a better job, would she had made the female counterpart character stand up more for herself, especially at the end. Sara (the female lead) caved a little too easily for my taste, especially considering her background as a psychiatrist.
What I did like about the novel was that I can understand his struggle after being blinded all of a sudden. Not in a physical sense, but I can understand that desperation when your world is all of a sudden upside down, and the rug is pulled from under you. The Author managed to describe that fear very well, especially in a scene more toward the middle of the book, which I am not going to mention because I want to keep this a spoiler free review.
Nevertheless, I was also able to sympathize with the female lead, for the most part, and I truly enjoyed all of the well-crafted
side characters, that felt real, easy to connect to, and had depth.
Paradise Found is a quick and enjoyable read, with a mostly charming cast, and not overdone steamy scenes. As this was my introduction to the Author, I am looking forward to reading more books from her in the future
Mary Campisi has done it again – good story, good characters, good ending, not too long, and an enjoyable book to read.
Great
Matt lost his sight in a freak skiing accident, he was noir handling it well. His best friend is a psychologist and was going to come help him in California. But his wife was having problems with her pregnancy. So he sent his partner Sara. Matt didn’t trust her, his last ones were bad. But she decided to accept his terms of being a friend. Will love find them
Too much smut and far too much information about weird condoms. Pass!!
Loved the storyline….excellent book!!!!
Thoroughly enjoyed this book
Excellent look at blindness and how people have to cope!
A great inspirational story.
The partner in Sara’s psychology practice can’t leave his pregnant wife, and sends Sara to help his friend Matt who is depressed to find himself blind after a skiing accident. Matt pushes hard against Sara’s efforts, but she has the support of those in his household and Matt gradually recognizes she is helping. Matt and Sara are drawn to each other, but fight it because of their past. They lead each other on a merry chase to a happy conclusion — a great read.
The message is to never give up hope.
I enjoyed the book.
Not thrilled with characters / not believable. Too much sex!
This story had enough side characters to keep me entertained. In the beginning I thought it was going to be predictable story but enough twists to keep me involved until the end.