"Category: inspirational"--P. [4] of cover.

Hollywood film editor Sara Finer has loved brilliant movie director Lucas Steel from afar for years. Now she finally has a chance to win his heart when she's sent to his New Mexico desert retreat, but there's a catch. Lucas abandoned his career after the accidental death on location of his ex-wife. Sara's mission is to convince him to finish the film--a hot-button issue made hotter by the sudden appearance of his bitterest rival.

When Denise Roessle became a mother at 45, her long-held dream came true. She felt as if she were 19 again, the age at which she got pregnant out of wedlock and relinquished her newborn son for adoption. Suddenly, he was back - this stranger she had given birth to - and he wasn't just searching for his roots. Joshua was looking for a mom. Eager to embrace the second chance she had been granted, Denise leapt wholeheartedly into the role. "It's a BIG boy," she announced to her family and friends, setting free her twenty-six-year secret. But Joshua was not a boy. He was a grown man, with a history that fell far short of what she had envisioned for him when she'd been assured he would be "better off" without her. His adoptive parents had essentially given up on him at age thirteen, sending him away with only an eighth-grade education. He drifted through a series of institutions and group homes, and ultimately onto the New York City streets, where he fell into drugs and crime. When an early marriage failed, he and his young wife surrendered an infant and toddler to adoption. By the time Denise and her son reunited, he was in his second marriage to a teenaged runaway who was six months pregnant with their first child. Despite her disappointment and his obvious problems, Denise was determined to restore their severed bond and give him the unconditional love that had been lacking in her own childhood. At the same time, she struggled with her parents' adverse reaction to her reunion and their refusal to acknowledge their grandson's existence. The shameful event that they had worked so vigorously to bury was back to haunt them. They could not accept their daughter's happiness at having found her lost child. Still reeling in the overwhelming mix of joy and grief, gratitude and guilt triggered by reunion with her son, Denise received a letter from an aunt she never knew existed. Aunt Mabel revealed some startling information about Denise's mother, who had claimed to be an only child raised by a kindly couple after both her parents passed away. In truth, she was one of nine siblings tossed to the winds by their mother after the death of their father in 1929. As she got to know her new-found aunts, uncles and cousins, Denise became obsessed with understanding how her grandmother could desert her children and how her mother, who so clearly bore the scars of abandonment, could then force her own daughter to give up a child. A year into their reunion, after Josh's wife left him with their ten-month-old daughter, the rage that he had initially denied surfaced. Denise went from feeling like a new mom to the frustrated parent of an out-of-control teenager. In the face of his angry outbursts and threats to cut her off, she remained intent on "fixing" him, believing that, in time, she could heal his wounds. Once more, she put her own pain aside and stood by him as he married twice more and fathered another child. Only when Josh and Denise reached an impasse in year five, did she recognize how emotionally shutdown she had been since relinquishing her son - and how she had let her fear of losing him again hold her hostage. In the silence of their estrangement, she began the hard work that ultimately allowed her to resolve her own issues, reclaim the young woman she had left behind after surrendering what turned out to be her only child, and make peace with the past. She found acceptance and forgiveness for her mother, her son, and ultimately herself.

Back in her hometown for her high school reunion, Faith comes face to face with her first love from twenty years ago. But as they confront the lies that kept them apart all that time, they wonder if they can give their relationship another chance. Faith Bennett reluctantly returns to her hometown for a job interview on the eve of her high school reunion, dreading the idea of facing her first love who shattered her heart twenty years earlier. The memory of the woman he proposed to on the night of their high school graduation has haunted dedicated intensive care physician Dominic Vasser for two decades. So, when he finds out they’ll soon be working side by side, those old wounds he thought were healed are ripped open again. Constantly reminded of the love she left behind, Faith navigates her new life while Dominic struggles with his unresolved feelings and juggles the demands of his career and family. Despite their fears, sparks fly when they cross paths, reigniting the passion they thought was long ago extinguished. Confronted with the harsh truth that a web of lies has kept them apart for years, Faith and Dominic grapple with the betrayal of their loved ones as they decide if they can overcome the past and embrace a future together. The Reunion is a book from the series, Love Stories from a Small Town. If you like a small town second chance romance with more mature couples, you’ll love this series!

I kept my high school crush on Cameron and Hugh a secret because it was impossible to decide who I liked best. When I left our small town for the big city, seeking fame and fortune and a career in fashion, I tried to forget about them. It didn't work. Six years later, we met again at a reunion when I returned to our small hometown for a friend's wedding. A storm forced us to shelter together and face up to our feelings for each other. They're both good guys with hearts of gold. Hearts that pound for the same woman: me. The biggest once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is waiting for me in LA. It would launch my fashion career into the stratosphere. But I'd have to turn my back on a second chance at love. Is there any way I can have it all? The Reunion is book 1 in the Fashionable Friends Trilogy.

Continue this contemporary western clean romance series with LAST CHANCE REUNION - a second chance clean romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Liz Isaacson! You'll get later-in-life romance in every book. Curvy heroines. And sweet and swoony cowboys, all with a Christian romance theme! This book features an army cowboy and his second chance with the woman he dated 20 years ago- read today! An Army cowboy, the woman he dated almost 20 years ago, and their last chance at Last Chance Ranch... Can Dave and Sissy put aside hurt feelings and make their second chance romance work? Sissy Longston has been the accountant at Last Chance Ranch for over a year now. She's been dating as much as possible now that she's decided her world-traveling days are over and it's time to settle down. She's not having a lot of luck, and she's started to wonder if she waited too long to pursue marriage, family, and the house with the white picket fence. Her ex-fiancé, David Merrill, works at the same ranch, and he's been careful to make sure their paths don't cross. But he's also joined the Christian dating app Sissy has, and they set up a blind date not knowing they'll be meeting the other for dinner. So when Dave walks in and sees Sissy, the woman who gave back his diamond ring eighteen years ago so she could go to China, sitting at the table, he thinks maybe God has given them a second chance. As they begin to re-discover one another, they find all the flames from their past still burning brightly. But Sissy still has some ghosts to face, and Dave hasn't truly forgiven her for walking out on him all those years ago. Can they overcome their personal obstacles in order to find their happily-ever-after at Last Chance Ranch? Read the entire Last Chance Ranch series by USA Today bestselling author Liz Isaacson: 1. Last Chance Ranch - opposites attract, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance, curvy heroine, billionaire cowboy 2. Last Chance Cowboy - billionaire romance, enemies to lovers romance, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance, curvy heroine 3. Last Chance Wedding - fake marriage, fake relationship, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance, redemption romance, female carpenter, curvy heroine 4. Last Chance Reunion - second chance romance, military hero, curvy heroine, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance 5. Last Chance Lake - country music star cowboy, curvy heroine, friends to lovers, redemption romance, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance 6. Last Chance Christmas - holiday romance, Christmas romance, curvy heroine, friends to lovers, workplace romance, office romance, later in life romance, clean romance, sweet romance, Christian romance

The Daughter They Gave up for Adoption 12 Years Ago Comes Back into Their Lives This second chance couple learns the true meaning of Family. Like the SEAL Brotherhood…no one gets left behind. As the daughter they gave up for adoption 12 years ago comes back into their lives, Damon and Martel plan their June wedding and Martel’s move to San Diego. Martel struggles with giving up a job and house she loves at the beach in Florida for an unknown future in Coronado with her fiance’s career hanging in the balance. Do they have the grit to keep it tight when enemies keep springing up at every turn? Best reading order: Second Chance SEAL (Sunset SEALs Book #2), Second Chance Reunion.