The Second Chance Summer

The only man who can help her is the last man she wants to see. Anabel Newsome spent ten years on her dream career. It took one email to destroy it, and now she is willing to do anything to get it back. Even work with Luca, the grumpy-but-gorgeous painter who broke her heart ten years ago. The plan is simple: Agree to a three-month leave of absence for the “burnout” she swears she doesn’t have. Return to the sunshine-soaked coast of Italy, find her supposed bliss, and convince her boss she’s ready to come back to work. What isn’t in the plan is discovering that the hostel she loved in her twenties is falling apart. Maybe it’s because that’s something she and the building have in common, or maybe it’s just because she’s incapable of taking a break, but Ana is determined to save it. And Luca, as the hostel handyman, is going to help. Whether he likes it or not! Between renovations that go sideways, a new summer fling that complicates things, and a decade-old wound she never quite let heal, Ana’s carefully planned trip is quickly going off the rails. But the beach vacation she never wanted might just be her second chance to make the right choice. The Second Chance Summer is the debut romance by Rose Graceling-Moore (80k), featuring a high-heat dual-timeline summer romance, set in London and Italy. It is a standalone romance, with an FMC in her 30s (and her 20s!), a love triangle, and a grumpy/sunshine dynamic in a small beach town.