NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY & WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestseller, Corinne Michaels, comes a new second chance standalone romance.One word.Stay.It was all he had to do. Instead, he got on that bus and took my heart with him.That was seventeen years ago.I moved on. Marriage. Kids. White picket fence. Everything I ever wanted, but my husband betrayed me and I was left … Everything I ever wanted, but my husband betrayed me and I was left once again.
Alone, penniless, and with two boys, I had no choice but to return to Tennessee. He wasn’t supposed to be there. I should’ve been safe. However, fate has a way of stepping in.
This time around, the tables are turned. It’s my decision. Second chances do exist, but I don’t know if we can repair what’s already been broken . . .
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This book has great tear jerking scenes, suicide of her first husband, when she lost the baby. these part were really moving.
BUT I’m still trying to figure out which part of Tennessee Belt Buckle is located in. I could picture Wyoming. The rest of the story read like soft porn.
5 Heartwrenching Stars!!
I am so in love with this book! When I finished, I just had to sit there and let it all soak in. Corinne Michaels touched absolutely ever single place in my heart and soul with this book. I knew I was in trouble when my eyes were leaking at only 10% into this book.
Presley and Zach are from a small town in Tennessee. They were each other’s firsts in all things and thought they would be together forever. Being young, naïve and forced to make decisions proved otherwise and left them both heartbroken. Now seventeen years later, Presley has her entire world turned upside down again, and much to her dismay, finds herself back home in the hometown she swore to never return to. Running into Zach is the last thing she ever wanted, but when she does it’s plain as day that the flame is still there and burning just a brightly as it ever did.
Presley has got to be one of the strongest female characters I have ever read in ANY book. When life throws her lemons, it takes her a little while, but she definitely makes lemonade out of them. This is book is not only about second chance love, but also about how Presley struggles to find the strength to get out of bed every day, not just for her sake, but for her boys as well. This book made me feel so many different things, it’s almost impossible to describe them all. Love, loss, anger, heartache, the list goes on. Trust me when I say that you definitely don’t want to miss out on this book. Even the supporting characters are loveable and I’m so excited for what’s next in this series.
Angela – Alphas Do It Better Book Blog
I’ve decided to look at some past favorites. This is my still my favorite Corinne Michaels book. I loved it so much. It stayed with me for weeks.
This story is a great second chance romance story. I am a complete and total sucker for second chance romances haha. This one is definitely one of my favorite ones. It’s just such a beautiful story and so full of emotion. I remember the first time I read it and just thinking wow I need a minute here with my feelings haha.
If this is your first time reading it. I highly recommend it and the rest of the series.
Loved the characters could not put the book down
Not many authors can get me crying. I was bawling one the FIRST CHAPTER.
You want heartbreak? You want angst? You want a second chance romance? Read this book. It was beautifully written. It really was. I don’t even know how to put into words how this story made me feel. It felt real, it felt like everything was truly happening in that moment.
Ugh. All the feels. 5+ stars. I feel like I need to read every single book by this author now. And to think this book sat on my Kindle for five months before I touched it. I’m kicking myself for that!
The beginning was so sad but it had a happy ending
This book was a fantastic second chance romance with all the angst, love, and quite a bit of good ol’ southern sass.
I loved how this book gripped me from the beginning, it just BAM! in your face and it grabbed my heart and broke it.
Heartache, between past and present, secrets, and a lot of small town meddling, this book will break you and put you back together.
Beautiful
Have a few tissues ready, a great second chance romance. Zach & Presley grew up in a small town and where high school sweethearts, she waited two years and even changed colleges to follow him. But then his big dream of playing pro baseball came and he left. She stayed in Pennsylvania but never went to Tennessee, she married and her parents would visit them. But then her husband kills himself and she and her boys have to move back and that is when she sees Zach again.
This was an excellent book. This was the first book by this author for me and I really like her writing style. I only wish I knew about the beginning of the book. It was a trigger for me and it was difficult for me to get through
Great book with steamy scenes and a good plot line
Presley feels that her family is that perfect little family with the white picket fence. Her husband supports her while she and her sister-in-law start up a bakery. She has two wonderful twin boys. But her life gets turned upside down in a flash after returning home Friday night.
Left with no choice but to return to her home town with her boys to help run the family farm and get back on her feet. All three of them not loving the change have to find a new normal life outside of the city.
Presley tries to stay hidden on the farm but her mother and old best friend have other plans. Once she learns that Zach is still in town she does all that she can to not cross paths with him. They have a past together and one that has cut deep. They learn that staying away from each other isn’t as easy as it seems.
Are they able to move past the past and move forward? Can they forgive each other for the mistakes in the past?
Wow! What a book! I almost stopped reading after the first chapter because it was so painful. I am so glad a stuck it out!!! Great characters and an amazing story. Extremely well written.
A real downer. Way too much angst. There was so much interjection of character’s thoughts it was hard to follow the dialogue. I gave up on the book less than halfway through.
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Wonderful Romance!
A pleasing happy ending.
Enjoyable read.
Enjoyable and entertaining read. Loved the characters.
Enjoyed this second chance romance.
I really did not enjoy this book. I have real trouble feeling any empathy or sympathy for the female protagonist of the story. She is supposed to have “abandonment” issue because (1) her boyfriend “left” her when they were in college and he was offered a contract with a professional baseball team, his dream profession; and (2) her husband “left” her when he committed suicide and left her to deal with a mountain of debt. She supposedly had NO idea whatsoever that her husband has accumulated so much debt and she felt betrayed and hurt that he didn’t talk and confide with her and that he chose to die and “left” her to deal with the debt. What debt??? The story talked only about buying his parents house and complete gut rehab of the house and her opening of a cupcake business. How does she not know about these? And as for her former boyfriend, she’s mad because he signed a contract with a professional major baseball team without first consulting her. Seriously?? Like he can sign up with any professional major baseball team when she’s ready?
I think even the author must realize that the “reasons” for her “rage” of being “abandoned” is flimsy at best, so in the middle of the story, out of nowhere, she suddenly added in that the female protagonist was pregnant and lost the baby at that time.
I find the female protagonist narcissistic, selfish, spoiled and sophomorically dramatic. She is also mean and bullying. How dare she comes back and scratch the eyes out of Luke’s girlfriend when she herself is happily married to some other man for 15 years. She said she can’t wait to get out of her parent’s house when she left for college, never looked back or visited for more than 15 years, and yet when she needed to, she moved back to her parent’s house, rent-free and expense-free, and when she “snared” Luke, will move in with him because “she can’t wait to get out of her parent’s house”. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is than to ……. And finally, she was angry with Angie, her best friend and the sister of her dead husband, because Angie dared to judge her for dating Luke when it’s barely 6 months since her husband killed himself. I thought the author slough over the feelings of Angie and her parents.
Everything was about her, her, her. There really is just nothing good or nice about her for me to like, which makes the whole book distasteful to me. Not going to even keep it in my reader. The first book ever to be discarded from my reader, but there’s just no reason to keep it.