Life can change in a flash.Marriage and a baby wasn’t Amy Forsythe’s college plan. After a shotgun marriage glued together by her son, she’s convinced that love isn’t meant for her. Now nearing forty and single for the first time since her senior prom, her friends are pushing her to date. Her teenager isn’t thrilled by the idea and neither is Amy.Silver fox Thomas Popov isn’t looking for The One. … Popov isn’t looking for The One. He found her decades ago. And fell apart when she died. At fifty-three with a new job, a new city, and an empty nest, he’s focused on climbing the corporate ladder.
When a softball accident lands Thomas in Amy’s dental chair, sparks fly.
Lightning doesn’t strike twice. But love might.
This time is different.
This Time Is Different is a steamy contemporary romance.
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A sweet story about Thomas a widower with 3 grown children and Amy, a divorced mother of 1 who is an orthodontist. Thomas plays on the Hospital baseball team where he works and is the COO. He gets hit in the mouth with a bat. Thomas meets Amy as her patient. Thomas’s attraction for Amy is instant. This book follows a story line about two older professionals who are not
looking for love but love finds them. Which answers the question are we ever to old to want love in our lives? The audio version is read by the sexy voice of Sebastian York.
This.Book.IS.Different!
A lovely second chance romance with real characters. The author has done an amazing job of telling a love story that is sweet and simple, but gives the reader glimpses into real life experiences. Both Amy and Thomas have lived life – with four adult (or almost) children to show for it. Amy Forsythe divorced her husband four years ago and she co-parents their 17-year old son Grady with her ex-husband. Amy wanted the divorce — and her rationale for putting her life on hold until Grady goes off to school is a trope that I have heard from my friends over the years — so reality hit me hard when I read this book. Amy doubts that she will ever find love or if she truly deserves love — and is cautious when it comes to taking a chance on love with anyone.
Thomas Popov has been living silently since his wife’s death eight years ago. He had the ideal marriage, a wife he adored, three good kids. Now his children are off to schools across the country and his nest is empty. So his life now consists of work as a hospital administrator, with rowing and gardening as hobbies to keep himself centered, and even does yoga on occasion. His quiet existence is disrupted on that fateful day when he met his doctor/dentist/angel during a softball game that puts Amy and Thomas together.
The story that unfolds between these two characters is real, because both are treading lightly into the relationship, both not quite certain what to do, what to expect and how to proceed. The outcome from these actions makes for a quick and easy read and you will enjoy the journey these characters take toward their new reality. The fourth book from this author that I have read and certainly one of my favorites. You get a bit more into why Amy and Bert divorced, how she handles co-parenting with Bert but also how she sees herself interacting with Thomas’ adult children. The author has captured second chance love stories with heart and emotion that is true and real. Definitely worth your time to read!
This Time Is Different is easily one of my favorite books. Amy and Thomas are in their forties, an age often overlooked by the romance genre. They are real adults, with real jobs and real life issues, and real maturity. If angst is your catnip, keep looking. These two meet, date, have disagreements that they deal with like adults, and love one another. It’s not stale. It’s a gorgeously written romance with one of the best meet-cutes I’ve read.
I don’t think there are many authors who write Gen-Xers as well as Wood. Parenting teens, job stress, maintaining bodies and homes and friendships are all done with humor and a nod to what those of us of a certain age deal with.
Highly recommend!
If you want an amazing book with older characters, let’s face it a hot silver fox is pure reading heaven, then you have found your next read! I could not put this book ok down, my messy house speaks the truth. I loved the previous book, Plus One, and I became a Mae Wood fan immediately while reading it. I loved Bert in that book and was so curious about his ex wife and her part in their story. I was so glad to find that Amy and Thomas were the subject of this book. Just in case you were wondering, you do not have to read Plus One in order to read this book, but I highly recommend it.
Amy is an divorced orthodontist with a teenaged son. She meets Thomas, a widower with 3 grown children of his own, in a pretty humorous way. They both feel an attraction to each other but they don’t want anything serious the past has a grip on both of them still. So they decide to casually see each other. When things start to get a little more than just casual, these two characters have to figure out how to leave the past behind and to try and make way for something that’s different this time around.
Loved that this was an older couple finding love again.
I absolutely love love Tom and Amy story It is about two people who aren’t looking for anything and find each other. Can they overcome the struggles and challenges that face them? Great characters and storyline. Love Mae Wood books
This Time is Different was right up my alley–I loved the premise and the fact that Mae Wood continues to write about real relationships and mature characters.
Amy has settled into a post-divorce single life that is devoted to her teenage son and career. Thomas has come to terms with losing his wife several years prior, and is focused on his college-aged kids and job as a hospital administrator. The book explores if they want to commit to marriage again, knowing they’ve each been down that path before, and how they will bring their families together if they do pursue a relationship.
As with all of Mae Wood’s books, you will find intelligent writing, realistic characters with authentic dialogue that is not forced or contrived for their age or situation. The book is not about 20-year old college students (although, I love and read my fair share of those!) and the writing appropriately reflects that. There were also lots of intimate moments between Thomas and Amy steamed up my kindle! A fun bonus was all the pop culture references to the 80’s and 90’s that had me reminiscing along with the characters.
This was a heartwarming story that proves you can find true love at any age!
This charming story is about Amy & Thomas finding love second time around. They both have families; one is divorced and the other is widowed. They are both immensely likeable characters, the developing relationship between them is hot and spicy in parts and the way they try to mesh their two families is admirable.
The story has a real feel good factor about it and it makes a refreshing change to read about hot, likeable characters who are over the age of 35. Definitely recommended.
I LOVED this book! Great characters, great story, kept my interest throughout. I highly recommend this author.
Not all romances have to be about the first blush of love. This is a fantastic example of a second-chance love story. Characters who are easy to empathize with, and a great story line make this another example of Mae Wood’s ability to weave a rich tapestry of all the literary elements. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable read.
This may have been my first Mae Wood book and I am now hooked! The characters are so real and easy to relate too, I want to be friends with them. It is refreshing to read a romance about adults with some of the issues we can all totally understand. A divorced single mom with a teenage boy who finds herself suddenly in a relationship with an amazing silver fox. Amy & Thomas’s story is sweet, hot and very sexy!
Warning: once you read your first Mae Wood book, you will find yourself hooked just like me…….but never fear as long as she keeps writing I won’t have to suffer withdrawal.
This book completely warmed my heart and soul. I am a huge fan of Mae Wood and have enjoyed all her books from day one. Every time I read one of her books she brings us relatable characters.
This Time is Different is certainly different in a way that Thomas is one sexy silver fox. Amy is a hard working single mom and her best friend is really hoping one day she would start to date again. Low and behold Thomas comes to her office one day from a softball to the face. Thomas is a widower and enjoying his life but felt like he was missing something. He was looking for a companion and while he sat in the orthodontist chair he knew Amy was this person.
As I read this book I kept thinking this is so much more, it is smart, it is sexy and it is so relatable to people close to my age. Amy and Thomas navigate this whole process of dating at an older age. The best part of is they are friends before they are lovers and have a feel what each needs are as they move in the dating circle. But I think I will tell you the rest on my VLOG review.
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I loved this book. Realistic, mature characters and a great story line.
I am not good with words so I’ll get right to the point. You NEED to read this book. This Time is Different is such a feed good, heart felt, love story with simmering heat. There is no drama – only real life situations. I felt so many emotions while reading this book but mainly just happiness. I smiled through 90% of the book. Truly smiled while I read. I also cried. I have NEVER cried while reading a book before – not because there was sadness – but because there was emotion. Emotions that I’ve lived through and could relate to.
This may be the most real book I’ve ever read. Amy and Thomas are people I can picture in real life. I see myself in their kids. I see my parents in them. I see my friends in their friends.
If you’ve read Plus One by Mae – this is the perfect follow up. Getting to see Bert again and the other side to their divorce was wonderful. Getting to read about Grady again and also a glimpse at Trip and Marissa.
Get this book. You will not be disappointed – I promise.
I love love loved this story. Wonderful to read about mature adult love, drama and roadblocks.
Amy and Thomas navigate many issues and how they do it is sweet, touching, sometimes painful but most of all a very rewarding journey for the reader.
This is a book about second chances and finding love when you weren’t looking. Amy is divorced, raising her teen aged son and learning her new normal with her ex. Thomas is a widower, has adult children and isn’t looking to start over with a new relationship. Thomas and Amy meet and the attraction is there. They both cautiously begin exploring what could be. This book is so well written. It has characters from Mae’s previous books but is a complete stand alone. It is a book whose story about adults looking to navigate their world in a wholly unexpected reality because life happened. You will not be disappointed.
I have read Plus One and loved it (and Bert) so I was looking forward to reading about Amy and how things turned out for her.
This is a second chance for Amy (divorced, single-mum) and Thomas (Widower with grown up children) and I love how both characters are in a place in their lives where they aren’t particularly looking for something, they are both successful and settled in their careers and want for nothing. The fact that they are thrown together and decide to act on their attraction rather than waste time is a definite plus for me.
This is a look at a real grown-up relationship with the complication of blending families and managing feelings of other people without losing what they want. It is witty and sensitively handled.
I was completely absorbed in the story and couldn’t believe when it finished, I wanted it to go on and on.
Oh Mr. #silverfox aka Thomas. You are everything a divorced woman wants NEEDS and DESERVES.
You are a man that knew what he wanted (Doctor Dentist Angel) and went after it. You have a love for your kids and your deceased wife and a love for a curvy divorcee.
Amy, you are not what I had expected. I wanted to hate you for hurting Bert. I F’love Bert. FLOVE HIM HARD. You hurting him made me want to hurt you. (figuratively) I didn’t want you to find love. I wanted you to suffer a bit. But DAMN, Thomas is the man for you and you are the woman for him. I found myself liking you. Wanting you to find a love that you didn’t have with Bert. You got it. You got it good. So congrats on that.
This was my big introduction to the “silver fox” situation -and it blew my mind. I can’t count how many times I’ve gifted this book to others. It was so good that I immediately bought the audiobook when it came out so that I could live it all over again!
How wonderful and refreshing to read about an “older couple”! I loved Thomas and Amy and the unique problems they encounter, established careers, kids, exes, pets, friends. Lives entrenched in traditions and expectations. Where do you begin again, how do you start thinking about yourself? Would you be brave enough to risk your heart? This book explored all these questions beautifully. I loved this book and my only complaint was that it wrapped up too quickly! I wanted more Thomas and Amy!