Sometimes, the right person, wrong time is a real situation, but that doesn’t always mean that one love was the wrong person. We love second chance romances because it can give us hope that maybe, just maybe that one person is really our true love. As fate likes to say: if it’s meant to be it will be. Take a look at our favorite second chance romances that might inspire us all to maybe take a second look at our past loves…

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Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

AJ Graves is stuck working at a video rental store while daydreaming of writing for SNL in the summer of 2000. One day Noah Drew, of the Drew acting family, walks in and AJ’s life changes forever. Their friendship and acting partnership abruptly ends when Noah disappears one day. In New York City, seven years later, AJ is shocked to find herself cast alongside Noah on a TV show. Working together as two characters that grow closer together causes Noah and AJ to grow closer together again. As they confront their past, a well kept and devastating secret threatens to tear the pair apart again.

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Left of Forever by Tara Dewitt

When they were only teenagers, Wren and Ellis Byrd fell in love and had their son, Sam. Over time they built a life together on the Oregon Coast, but eventually things crumbled. Now in their 30s and divorced, Ellis works as a firefighter and Wren spends her time running a bakery. Though they have Sam to coparent, they lead different lives while constantly thinking about each other. After moving Sam into college, Ellis manages to convince Wren to give their relationship another chance and take a road trip back to Spunes. As they travel up the California coastline, the pair feels emotions they haven’t felt for years, but the past will come back forcing them to face old wounds together. 

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The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest

As a celebrity stylist, Violet Greene is extremely successful, traveling the world and doing what she loves. After a very public breakup six months ago, Violet is still recovering. Xavier Wright is a high school teacher and basketball coach who rarely leaves his hometown so what are the chances that he runs into his ex-girlfriend Violet, who he thought he was going to marry, while on vacation in Las Vegas. After their surprise fades, they decide to live it up in Vegas together, recklessly partying. Maybe a little too reckless… as they wake up together in bed, wearing wedding rings. Rather than rushing to an annulment, they both agree that their careers would benefit from being married. They decide to fake marital bliss but how long can you fake something that was once real?

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Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan

Former child star, Andy Ducharme, has moved on from her life in the spotlight and now works in a flower shop in coastal New England. Technically though, she ran away from Hollywood and from her ex-girlfriend and ex-costar, Nikki Price. When Nikki announces she is going to write a tell-all book about their childhood starring on the Nik and Andy Show, Andy texts her for the first time in a long time. Andy is expecting a text back and definitely not expecting Nikki to actually show up at the flower shop to tie up their loose ends. 

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Ship Happens by Mason Deaver

Owen’s life seems to have unravelled in just one year. His group of friends are moving on without him and his boyfriend left him for a research team in the United Kingdom. Jacob showing up to their friends’ Christmas party looking handsome as ever is literally the last thing that Owen needs or wants. He also doesn’t need or want the surprise seven day cruise to Alaska from his friends that his ex-boyfriend will also be on. Jacob broke Owen’s heart a year ago and is confusing his heart when he says that he wants to be friends. Owen hesitantly agrees, but time together under the Alaskan sun is all he needs to start falling for Jacob again. 

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Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

Though she might be a wedding planner, Ama Torres doesn’t believe in marriage. Brooding Elliot Bloom hates owning his flower shop until the bright-eye Ama walks into his shop. In the past, they worked together night and day, but then Ama broke Elliot’s heart. Now, they are forced to work together on a wedding that could set their careers up for great success, but neither of them have gotten past their history. The two brides can see the chemistry between them and are determined to set Ama and Elliot up. When parts of the wedding begin to go awry, Ama and Elliot will find that they still work well together day and night.

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The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Georgia Woodward and her ex-boyfriend, Eli Mora, have been living by a list of dos and don’ts since they broke up five years ago. Their mutual best friend, Adam, is getting married soon, and they will be the best man and woman. Georgia is determined to stay cool and calm by following their list of rules, instead of endangering the friend group with her feelings for Eli that never left. The pair is shoved together when the wedding venue burns to the ground and Adam asks them to help plan a new wedding as fast as they can. As they spend their time in Napa Valley, planning a rushed but perfect wedding, their chemistry shows up like it never even left. Though it might be breaking the rules, Georgia and Eli both begin to fall for each other, and they might just have a chance at building something new. 

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Happy Place by Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn were the perfect couple. They were college sweethearts that fit together perfectly, until they broke up five months ago without telling their best friends. Now they find themselves at their friend group’s decade long tradition, an annual trip, sharing a bedroom and pretending they are still together. The one week a year where they relax, drink lots of wine, and enjoy the beach with the people they love has become, Harriet and Wyn lying to their friends, and ignoring the feelings they still have for each other. Harriet, the driven surgical resident, is trying to not start any fights, and the laidback Wyn is determined to not let any cracks show but how long can you hide something this big from the people that know you best?

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It’s Different This Time by Joss Richard

After her hit TV show was cancelled, June Wood follows a mysterious email to the New York City brownstone she lived in before her time in Hollywood. After the former owner passes, their will reveals that she and her former roommate, Adam Harper, have inherited the multimillion-dollar property. All they have to do is wait a month for the paperwork to be finished. Once those four weeks are up, June can head back to Los Angeles and go back to forgetting what and who she left behind. June and Adam didn’t end their friendship on good terms when they stopped speaking five years ago, but owning this brownstone is an opportunity of a lifetime. As the autumn weeks go by, June and Adam realize that they have unfinished business. They must navigate their complicated past together, and decide if this second chance is worth the risk.

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Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond

Shortly after getting married, Molly and Robin worked to turn the Hummingbird Inn into a queer traveler’s ultimate destination in the mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Over time, their career ambitions pushed them apart, leading to a separation, and a management firm taking over the Hummingbird Inn’s upkeep. Seven years later, Molly and Robin are both back at the Hummingbird Inn for two different reasons. Molly, an artist, has been commissioned for a couple of pieces and Robin, a celebrity chef, is dealing with her restaurants failing. They both retreat to their property, but are furious that the other is there. The pair resorts to pranking each other to try and scare the other off. When that doesn’t work, they decide to renovate the inn, sell it, and be done with each other. They aren’t expecting their work to bring up old chemistry that makes it hard to say goodbye to Hummingbird Inn and to each other. 

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PS: I Hate You by Lauren Connolly

When Maddie’s 29-year-old brother dies before fulfilling his dream of visiting all the destinations on his bucket list, she is given the bittersweet task of completing his journey. But her brother, knowing that misery loves company, also requested that she be joined by his best friend, Dominic- the man who broke her heart. As they travel thousands of miles to scatter her brother’s ashes across eight places, they’re forced to face their complicated past along with their grief. Through their banter and bittersweet memories, this comically heartbreaking journey leaves Maddie wondering if her brother had one final plan: playing matchmaker from the grave.

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Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo

Two star-crossed lovers reunite at a wedding in the beautiful nation of Nigeria. Dunni’s and her high school sweetheart Obinna’s chemistry may not have changed, but almost everything else has since she left Nigeria to attend college in America 12 years prior. But now Dunni is a Seattle geneticist, and while she may be engaged (yet not in love), her parents approve and all the success she could ever want is on the horizon. But once she sees Obinna, who has turned from a shy teen to a confident successful man, she’s reminded of the wonderful future they’d planned so many years ago, and a passion is stoked within in her—until past secrets of them both are discovered, and more questions than ever before are brought to light.

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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Single mom and bestselling erotica writer, Eva Mercy is not expecting to meet someone at a literary event. When she meets Shane Hall, a withdrawn, award-winning novelist, the sparks begin to fly, raising the eyebrows of those at the event. What they don’t know is that Eva and Shane spent a week in love when they were teenagers. They might be pretending they have never met, but their chemistry is undeniable. Meeting again brings up shared trauma, but through years of secretly writing to each other in their books, Eva and Shane have never stopped thinking of each other.

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First Love, Take Two by Sajni Patel

Between the stress of her residency, trying to find a job, and managing her traditional, no-boundaries family, Preeti Patel’s anxiety is through the roof. It also doesn’t help that her new roommate is her ex-boyfriend. If it weren’t for their families, Preeti and Daniel might still be together. Can Preeti and Daniel find a way to stand up and fight for each other one last time, before they lose their second chance?

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Wes and Addie Had Their Chance by Bethany Turner

Addie Atwater of Adelaide Springs, CO, is back home after a career crash and burn. The former CIA agent and recent divorcee is forced to retread her childhood, working her old dead-end job after a life of excitement. Worst of all, her childhood sweetheart and runaway groom Wesley Hobbes is back in town. But he isn’t the same boy who left her at the altar all those years ago. Now, he’s a big-shot senator and presidential candidate. Addie finds it hard to avoid thinking about him with his face plastered on every street corner, but when the two meet again face to face, he’s no what she expected. Wes lets slip that he isn’t too keen on entering the white house and that he’s hiding something that could break the news if it got out. Addie can’t help but wonder (and do a little sleuthing behind the scenes). Everything she uncovers has the potential to change Wes’ image to the public and to her.

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