Second chance romance, with the door closed

A second chance asks more than whether two people still want each other. They must face what ended the first attempt and what years of silence changed. These finished novels are Warm: the tension stays on the page and intimacy fades to black.

Choose by the history you want to enter. A Week of Small Repairs reunites a secret couple after five years. Notes Toward a Second Language brings a divorced pair back to the same desk after a loss. Everything We Left in Edinburgh follows the woman who walked out of her wedding. Every chapter of each is free.

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A Week of Small Repairs

Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want a secret you both kept, and both let go.

For twenty-one months they were together and told nobody; he promised three times to tell his sister and never did, and she kept an exit open and never asked him to close it. Five years later a friend's wedding on a tidal Norfolk creek gives them one week and one job that neither half can do alone.

Nobody is the villain here. The question is whether she can say out loud what she wants and let him have the chance to refuse it. Quiet and outdoors, told by her, with grief in the background.

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Notes Toward a Second Language

Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want two people who were married.

Two literary translators, divorced three years after a loss neither of them could talk about, are left a dead friend's last novel on condition that they translate it together, from the same pages, in one room, within six months.

The only one told in both voices, his and hers, so you see each silence from the inside. The slowest of the three, and the most about grief; its content notes include pregnancy loss.

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Everything We Left in Edinburgh

Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Read this if you want to be inside the one who left.

Ten years ago she walked out of their wedding with a note that said nothing true. Now her father's hotel group needs his estate for a merger, she is the one sent to buy it, and his condition is that she stays the week.

The only one told entirely by the person who did the harm, and the most openly dramatic: a deal on a deadline, a whole town that remembers the wedding, and an explanation she owes him.

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