She’d come home to put her life back together.With a broken engagement behind her and a baby on the way, Maddie Adams needs a safe place to have her baby and heal her broken heart. Then she runs into Nick Ryan, her once-best friend and first love, and her life once again becomes entwined with his. And though the sparks between them are as strong as ever, she does her best to ignore them. Nick had … them. Nick had betrayed her once, and she can’t risk it happening again. Not now when she has another life to consider.
Nick Ryan grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Back then, the only person who’d believed in him was Maddie Adams, a girl with everything going for her. Then he’d messed up and lost her. Despite that, he’d achieved his dream of becoming a doctor and returned home to practice medicine. But he’d made other mistakes along the way, mistakes that had cost him his wife and left him with an angry teenage son. With Maddie back in town, he’s hoping for a second chance. Can he undo the damage he’s done to his son? Can he heal the old hurt between him and Maddie? And can they put together a new family, one based on love rather than obligation?
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Really enjoyed getting to know these characters and their personalities!
Loved the characters and the great story.
When Maddie’s engagement is broken and she finds herself expecting a bundle of joy, she goes back to her home town. There are a lot of memories here with some she would like to stay in the past but when she goes to see the doctor, she never expected that Nick the one person she never wanted to see again to be there. Nick is shocked to see Maddie. He never expected her to come back and seeing her stirs up the feelings he has always held for her. As time passes and they reconnect could there be a chance that they can let the past lay to rest for a brighter future? This touching story will have you cheering this couple on!
I enjoyed this story. I liked how the main character and the man’s son became great friends, a very good book. Hope to read more of Patricia’s books.
I was disappointed as her other books that I read were so good. It felt like this was just thrown together. She comes back to her old home pregnant. She needs to patch things up with her mother. Her fiancé isn’t sure he wants a wife and baby. She meets up with her first love who is one of the town doctors. He lost his wife in a car accident and he is dealing with a unruly teenager. I just think it should have been better
This is a wonderful second chance romance. The characters were well developed and well written. I enjoyed reading this story. It us part of a series but can be read as an individual story.
Second Chances
What do you do when you go home to your hometown to feel better and keep your pregnancy healthy. See your mom, find out some truths your dad and her and run into your old high school sweetheart. You find peace and maybe true love again.
I read all three books and really liked them.
Wonderful story. I loved it cover to cover. Couldnt put it down.
Wonderful!
loved it
Nice and positive book to read except for one scene that was too explicit.
Nice easy summer read.
I loved this romantic book! The characters were very likable and they get their happy ending.
it was a good story. Happy ending.
3.5 bumped to 4 because things were so messed up. OK, I mean messed up in actions of the characters. Nick and Maddie grew up together, they had a friends to lovers relationship and it was pretty darn good. Then Maddie went off to college and Nick was left behind. Nick made one fatal (for their relationship) mistake and he doesn’t see Maddie again for sixteen years.
Maddie has come home to lower her blood pressure and have her baby in peace. Really, to reassess her life. The last person she wants to see is Nick Ryan. He broke her heart sixteen years ago and she hasn’t really pieced it back together all the way. She thought she had found love and a future with Roger. Until she announced that she was pregnant and Roger didn’t want anything to do with the baby. He needed time….
Nick is once again a free agent and he’s determined to put things back to how they were supposed to be. Maddie is determined to resist him every step of the way. Just when Nick thought he was making progress, Roger suddenly shows up with his decision.
The characters are believable and the circumstances, once you find out the whole story, are realistic. You end up rooting for Nick and wishing Maddie would open her eyes. It’s a fun story set in a small town, which makes the scenes absolutely believable. I grew up in small town America, believe me, this could totally happen. In fact, I think a variation of it did….
I just wished she’d kicked the ex to the curb long before she did.
What a wonderful story of first loves being reunited after life has kicked them around a bit. As a reader you want the happily ever after and you eventually get it with this story. Not as riddle with sexual scenes as I like, but the romance parts kept you hooked.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good story, happy ending!
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