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15 Best Lesbian Second Chance Romance Books

The Best Lesbian Second Chance Romances About Exes, Lost Love and Falling for Her Again

Sometimes falling in love isn't the hardest part.

Sometimes it's finding your way back to the woman you never quite stopped loving.

That's the irresistible promise at the heart of the best lesbian second chance romance books. These aren't stories about two strangers meeting across a crowded room. The women already know each other. They've already fallen in love. They know exactly how she takes her coffee, what makes her laugh when she's trying not to, and which subjects are better left alone.

They also know exactly how badly she can break their heart.

And now, somehow, they're back in each other's lives.

Perhaps they were childhood sweethearts who thought they'd be together forever. Maybe careers, families or circumstances pulled them apart. Perhaps one of them made a terrible decision. Maybe neither woman was ready for the relationship the first time around.

Or perhaps they simply loved each other at the wrong moment.

Years later, everything should be different.

Except the attraction is still there.

The memories are still there.

And all those feelings they thought they'd successfully packed away have an irritating habit of resurfacing the moment she walks back through the door.

That's what makessecond chance lesbian romance so emotionally satisfying. Unlike a traditional romance, we don't begin with possibility. We begin with history.

Every conversation carries the weight of what happened before. Every accidental touch means more because it isn't really the first. Every argument has another argument buried beneath it, and every moment of tenderness reminds the characters of something they once had and lost.

The reader isn't simply wondering, Will these women fall in love?

We're wondering something much more complicated.

Can they make it work this time?

And, perhaps more importantly, should they?


Why Lesbian Second Chance Romance Books Hit So Hard

There is something particularly powerful about reading two women fall for each other when technically they've already done it once.

In a sapphic second chance romance, attraction is rarely the problem.

The problem is everything else.

There may be resentment. Regret. Betrayal. Misunderstandings that were never properly resolved. Years spent building separate lives. New careers, new relationships and entirely new versions of themselves.

Then the past walks back in.

Suddenly, both women have to confront not only what happened between them but whether the people they are now could succeed where the people they were before failed.

That creates a very different romantic tension from first love.

A first kiss can be wonderful.

A first kiss after ten years apart, when both women remember exactly what kissing each other used to feel like?

That's another matter entirely.

The best lesbian second chance romance books understand this. They don't simply reunite former lovers and rely on nostalgia to carry the story. They make their characters earn the second chance.

There needs to be a reason the relationship ended.

And there needs to be a reason things might be different now.


Second Chance Lesbian Romance Is About More Than Getting Back Together

One of the things I love most about second chance lesbian romance is that the trope naturally creates room for character growth.

The women who separated five, ten or twenty years ago aren't necessarily the same women meeting again today.

Life happened in between.

They've succeeded. Failed. Loved other people. Lost people. Built careers. Raised families. Made mistakes. Learnt things about themselves they couldn't possibly have understood when they were younger.

That passage of time matters.

A convincing second-chance romance isn't about pretending the original breakup never happened. It's about asking whether two people can acknowledge what went wrong, take responsibility for their part in it and choose each other again with far more understanding than they had the first time.

Sometimes that means forgiveness.

Sometimes it means finally having the conversation they should have had years ago.

And sometimes it means admitting that despite everything they've done to move forward, neither of them ever completely let go.

That emotional history gives WLW second chance romance a richness that's difficult to replicate with characters meeting for the first time.


Why Exes-to-Lovers Sapphic Romance Creates Such Good Tension

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Enemies-to-lovers has hostility.

Friends-to-lovers has yearning.

But exes-to-lovers sapphic romance has both, plus a frankly inconvenient amount of emotional baggage.

These women already know where the weaknesses are.

They know how to annoy each other with surgical precision. They remember the arguments. They remember why they left.

Unfortunately, they also remember everything that was good.

That's where the tension comes from.

A familiar smile can undo years of carefully maintained distance. An old joke can suddenly make the intervening decade disappear. Being forced to spend time together can reveal tiny habits that haven't changed at all.

And then there are the questions neither woman particularly wants to answer.

Did she ever stop loving me?

Is she seeing someone?

Does she remember that night the way I do?

What if I let her back in and she breaks my heart again?

What if I don't and regret it for the rest of my life?

The best lesbian exes-to-lovers books make us sit inside that uncertainty with the characters. We know there's still something between them. They know there's still something between them.

Getting them to actually admit it is another matter.


The Best Sapphic Second Chance Romances Make the Reunion Feel Earned

For a second chance to be satisfying, there has to be change.

Simply putting two former lovers in the same room and turning the chemistry back on isn't enough.

If jealousy destroyed them the first time, something has to have changed.

If one woman chose her career over the relationship, she has to understand the consequences of that choice.

If fear kept someone from committing, she needs to confront that fear.

If circumstances separated them rather than choice, the story still needs to explore whether the women they've become are compatible with the lives they now lead.

That's why the strongest sapphic second chance romance books can be surprisingly emotional.

The romantic payoff isn't simply getting the couple back together.

It's watching two women look honestly at the relationship they once had and decide whether they're brave enough to build a different one.

Not recreate it.

Not pretend nothing happened.

Build something better.



The Art of Us — K.L. Hughes

Some love stories end because the love disappears. Others end even though it never really does. The Art of Us falls firmly into the second category. Charlee Parker and Alexandra Woodson meet as teenagers after a stolen parking space, a valedictorian medal and one particularly determined art student bring two very different young women together. For four years, their relationship feels unbreakable, until suddenly it isn't. Five years after their breakup, Alex's career brings her back to Boston and an unexpected meeting puts Charlee directly in her path again. Moving between past and present, the novel explores the relationship they once had, the lives they've built without each other and whether the connection that survived their separation is enough to create something new. Emotional, nostalgic and full of unresolved history, The Art of Us is exactly the kind of lesbian second chance romance that makes readers ache for two women who never completely stopped belonging to one another.

Perfect for readers who love: first loves • exes-to-lovers • reunited lovers • dual timelines • emotional second chance romance • Boston settings • lingering feelings • lesbian romance with angst


Seperate Like Stars — Diane Kane

Success hasn't given bestselling author Jordan Cohen the one thing she never quite managed to replace. On paper, her life is enviable: bestselling novels, blockbuster film adaptations and a high-profile relationship with one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Then Olivia Bradley, her former best friend and the woman who broke her heart, reappears. In Separate Like Stars, writer's block and a series of unexpected events force Jordan to confront the tragedies and unresolved emotions she's spent years avoiding. Reconnecting with Olivia means revisiting not only what happened between them but the life Jordan has allowed herself to settle into since. As past and present collide, she must decide whether forgiveness is possible and how much she's prepared to risk for a happiness she thought she'd lost. This is a sapphic second chance romance for readers who love complicated histories, former best friends and women forced to question whether the life that looks perfect from the outside is actually the one they want.

Perfect for readers who love: former best friends • lost love • celebrity romance • successful heroines • emotional reconciliation • writer protagonists • second chance sapphic romance • forgiveness and healing


The Flight Risk — Macon Leigh

 

Baylee Lawrence has finally achieved everything she spent years chasing. Her writing is award-winning, one of her stories has become a hugely successful film and she's just sold out a storytelling show at Nashville's legendary Ryman. Her life is exactly the grand adventure she always wanted, so there's absolutely no reason to go digging through the part of her past she's spent a decade trying to forget. Unfortunately, The Flight Risk has other plans for her. One unexpected encounter sets off a chain of events involving an old debt, a bucket list and a love story stretching across nineteen years. Macon Leigh's modern take on the red thread of fate explores the possibility that some people remain connected no matter how far apart their lives carry them. Funny, heartfelt and built around the woman Baylee never truly left behind, this is a lesbian second chance romance about what happens when the universe becomes considerably more determined about your love life than you are.

Perfect for readers who love: love across decades • fate and destiny • second chance romance • writers • emotional journeys • humour and heart • old flames • epic sapphic love stories


Then & Now — Monica McCallan

The last person wedding planner Lily Connor expects to find standing between her and the next step in her career is the woman who broke her heart. Lily has spent five years building a successful life at Southerland Wedding Company and is finally close to earning more responsibility. Then she's assigned to work with Bennett Burke, the bride's best friend and someone Lily thought she'd left firmly in the past. Their relationship lasted only a few months during a study-abroad experience, but the heartbreak stayed with Lily for years. Now Bennett is back, working together is unavoidable and Lily is determined not to make the same mistake twice. Unfortunately, avoiding someone professionally is difficult when you're repeatedly forced into the same room, and avoiding falling for them again is harder still. Then & Now delivers the delicious tension of an exes-to-lovers sapphic romance where one woman remembers exactly how much it hurt the first time and has no intention of giving her ex another opportunity to do it again.

Perfect for readers who love: exes-to-lovers • wedding planners • workplace proximity • study-abroad history • unresolved attraction • second chance lesbian romance • heartbreak and healing • forced proximity


Go Around — E.J. Noyes

 

Federal Air Marshal Avery Weston is almost over her ex. Almost. Then award-winning actress Elise Hayes sits beside her on a flight and fifteen months of carefully constructed emotional progress vanish somewhere around take-off. Go Around reunites two women whose relationship ended when Elise walked away, only to place them in even closer proximity when an obsessive fan begins threatening the actress. Avery knows keeping Elise safe is the sensible thing to do. Letting her stay at Avery's home for a few weeks should be straightforward. The problem is that the attraction between them hasn't diminished, familiar habits return alarmingly quickly and Elise isn't simply asking for protection. She's apologising for leaving. With old hurt colliding with very current chemistry, Avery has to decide whether love and regret are enough to justify trying again. Combining celebrity romance, suspense and forced proximity,Go Around is a wonderfully literal second-chance story about two women attempting to land a relationship that went badly wrong the first time.

Perfect for readers who love: celebrity romance • exes-to-lovers • Federal Air Marshal heroine • forced proximity • stalker suspense • unresolved chemistry • second chance lesbian romance • famous woman/non-famous woman


Second Chances — M.J. Duncan

 

Charlie Bennett has built an impressive career in sports journalism, but her personal life is still anchored to the woman she walked away from eight years earlier. After a one-night stand convinces her that something has to change, Charlie accepts a year-long guest lecturer position at a small university in rural New Hampshire, hoping distance from Manhattan will give her the reset she needs. Instead, she finds Mackayla Thomas. For Charlie, the reunion feels like fate finally offering her another shot at the relationship she never stopped regretting. Mackayla sees it rather differently. She remembers exactly how much it hurt when Charlie left and has no intention of handing her heart back to the same woman without a fight. Second Chances is a classic lesbian second chance romance about regret, forgiveness and whether loving someone once is enough reason to risk loving them again.

Perfect for readers who love: college sweethearts • reunion romance • sports journalists • academia • rural New Hampshire • regret and forgiveness • exes-to-lovers • emotional lesbian romance


Twice Upon a Time — Erica Lee

 Ten years after losing the woman she thought she'd build a life with, Kari Adelberg has convinced herself she's perfectly happy. She has friends, family and a dog, and that's enough. Then Kacey Caldwell moves into the house next door with her young daughter. Kacey was Kari's college sweetheart and the woman who shattered their future without explanation, leaving Kari with questions she never stopped carrying. Now proximity makes avoiding the past impossible. Kari has to decide whether protecting herself is worth never learning the truth, while Kacey must finally explain why she walked away. Full of angst, unanswered questions and the irresistible tension of former lovers living side by side, Twice Upon a Time is a deeply emotional sapphic second chance romance about whether love can survive a decade of silence.

Perfect for readers who love: college sweethearts • neighbours • single mums • ten-year separation • unanswered questions • angst • second chance lesbian romance • guaranteed happy endings


Don’t Circle Or — Kellan McKnight

 

Fifteen years after tragedy tore them apart, Morgan Trimble and Drew Hunter-Davidson are still living with the consequences. Morgan's life has become defined by guilt and self-destruction, while Drew remains trapped in a loveless marriage built around duty and family. When Morgan finally decides to return home, everything they buried resurfaces with her. Told through past and present, Don’t Circle Or explores the love they lost, the event that destroyed their future and whether healing is possible after so much time has passed. Letters, old wounds and unresolved longing gradually bring Morgan and Drew back towards the truths they've spent years avoiding. This is a heavier lesbian second chance romance about grief, forgiveness and two women discovering that sometimes coming full circle means finally facing what happened the first time.

Perfect for readers who love: love interrupted by tragedy • fifteen-year separation • dual timelines • emotional healing • letters • forbidden longing • family drama • sapphic second chance romance


Once in a Lifetime — Harper Bliss

Book cover for 'Once in a Lifetime' by Harper Bliss, featuring a romantic city skyline at night with a bridge over water, overlaid with a soft-focus image of two hands holding and large red script title text. 

Sometimes the love of your life is also the person you had to leave behind. In Once in a Lifetime, Leigh Sterling and Jodie Whitehouse share an intense connection, but incompatible ideas about their future eventually force them apart. More than a decade passes, and both women try to move forward, only to discover that subsequent relationships never quite match what they once had together. When their paths cross again, the feelings they've spent years trying to replace are impossible to ignore. Harper Bliss strips the second chance trope down to its emotional core: two women who loved each other deeply, lost each other anyway and must decide whether time has finally made room for the future they couldn't build before.

Perfect for readers who love: soulmates • decade-long separation • mature romance • lost love • reunited exes • emotional sapphic romance • second chances • enduring connection


Double Exposure — Rien Gray

 

Two master art thieves, one valuable collection and a breakup neither has handled particularly gracefully make Double Exposure a wonderfully sharp take on exes-to-lovers romance. Jillian Rhodes has built her career on deception, infiltration and working alone, which suits her perfectly until she's hired to steal a controversial photographic collection from the Art Institute of Chicago. Unfortunately, fellow thief Sloane Caffrey wants the same prize. Sloane also happens to be Jillian's extremely attractive ex. Three years after their messy breakup, the pair have turned revenge into something of a competitive sport, and the new job quickly becomes their latest battleground. But when the heist begins looking suspiciously like a setup, Jillian and Sloane are forced to confront more than professional rivalry. Double Exposure mixes crime, chemistry and unresolved resentment into a second chance sapphic romance where love and loathing are separated by a very thin line.

Perfect for readers who love: art thieves • exes-to-lovers • rivals • heists • revenge flirting • morally grey women • second chance sapphic romance • high-stakes chemistry


Dark Garden — Jennifer Fulton

 

A family feud stretching back more than a century stands between two women who should despise each other but can't ignore their attraction in Dark Garden. Vienna Blake has been raised to regard the Cavenders as enemies, so she's furious when Mason Cavender arrives at her office and accuses her of murder. Mason has just survived the plane crash that killed her brother and inherited a crumbling family empire, and she's convinced sabotage is responsible. Worse, she suspects Vienna. Yet beneath the accusations and generations of hostility is an immediate attraction neither woman expected. When Mason's investigation leads to psychic Phoebe Temple and long-buried family secrets begin emerging, both women are forced to reconsider everything they've been taught about the past. Dark Garden combines enemies-to-lovers tension, mystery and inherited resentment in a story about two women who must finally confront history if they have any hope of creating a future together.

Perfect for readers who love: family feuds • enemies-to-lovers • powerful women • forbidden attraction • family secrets • mystery and suspense • psychic elements • sapphic romance


Reckless Hearts — Ruby Scott

 

Four years ago, Margo Duran and Nell Brown shared something on a fogbound stretch of the Oregon coast that neither woman has ever been able to forget. Now Nell has driven eleven hundred miles to take a job at the Denver animal rescue foundation where Margo works, and the two women are expected to behave like strangers. Margo is older, guarded and exceptionally good at deflecting anything personal with a joke. Nell is twenty-nine, warm and carrying one question she's waited four years to ask. Instead of talking about what happened, they work six feet apart in an office too small for avoidance, sharing an increasingly significant eleven o'clock coffee while both pretend the past isn't sitting between them. Told across two timelines, Reckless Hearts is a slow-burn second chance lesbian romance about grief, vulnerability and two women discovering the difference between being needed and being loved.

Perfect for readers who love: second chance lesbian romance • age gap romance • older woman/younger woman • workplace romance • forced proximity • grumpy sunshine • dual timelines • found family • emotional slow burns


Always Alex — Robin Alexander

 

Sometimes the wish you made years ago simply takes a little longer to arrive. Growing up together in Barbier Point, Louisiana, Dana Castilaw and Alex Soileau spent years throwing coins into a wishing well. Dana wished for everything from puppies to love, while Alex made the same secret wish every time. At eighteen, Dana left town to escape her father's control and pursue a life of her own. Years later, circumstances bring her home again with her daughter, Sydney, and put her back in Alex's life. Time and maturity may have persuaded Alex that she should give up on the one thing she always wanted, but her heart never quite agreed. Warm, funny and rooted in a lifelong connection, Always Alex is a sapphic reunion romance about returning home and discovering that some wishes may still have a chance of coming true.

Perfect for readers who love: childhood best friends • returning home • small-town romance • single mothers • lifelong longing • humour and family • friends-to-lovers • sapphic reunion romance


Delay of Game — Tracey Richardson

 

Former lovers find themselves on opposite sides of one of sport's fiercest rivalries in Delay of Game, a lesbian second chance sports romance set against the pressure of the Winter Olympics. Twelve years ago, elite hockey players Niki Hartling and Eva Caruso fell in love while competing internationally, only for the intense USA-Canada rivalry to force their relationship apart. Now Eva is pushing her battered body through one final Olympic campaign, while Niki, a widow and single mother, has returned to the Games as a coach determined to lead her country to gold. With old feelings resurfacing, professional loyalties pulling them in opposite directions and the entire sporting world watching, Niki and Eva have to decide whether the spark between them survived the years apart. Delay of Game combines Olympic rivalry and lost love in a second chance sapphic romance where winning off the ice may prove every bit as difficult as winning on it.

Perfect for readers who love: lesbian sports romance • women's hockey • Winter Olympics • former lovers • rivals • widow/single mother romance • second chances • USA-Canada rivalry


The Promise — Claire Highton-Stevenson

Some second chances aren't about returning to an old love, but finding the courage to love again after losing the person you thought would be your forever. In The Promise, Ali and Susan Jenkins have built a life together filled with years of love, laughter and shared plans, until Susan is diagnosed with terminal cancer. As their future disappears, Susan asks Ali to make one final promise: don't close your heart, and let someone love you again. During Susan's final months, Ali finds quiet support in Blair, Susan's compassionate nurse, but after Susan dies, the two women drift apart. A chance meeting later brings Blair back into Ali's life and awakens feelings tangled in grief, guilt and the fear that moving forward might somehow betray the woman she lost. Emotional and deeply rooted in love after loss, The Promise offers a different interpretation of lesbian second chance romance: not a second chance with the same woman, but a second chance at love itself.

Perfect for readers who love: love after loss • widow romance • grief and healing • emotional lesbian romance • second chances at love • unexpected connections • mature sapphic romance • hopeful new beginnings


Why Second Chance Lesbian Romance Books Are Really About Change

The appeal of second chance romance isn't simply watching two women get back together.

It's discovering whether they can love each other differently the second time around.

Time changes people. The woman who walked away at twenty-two may understand herself very differently at thirty-five. The person who once prioritised ambition might now question what success actually means. Someone who couldn't communicate, commit or forgive may have spent years learning how to do precisely those things.

That's why the best lesbian second chance romance books need more than lingering chemistry.

They need growth.

In The Art of Us, Charlee and Alex have five years of separate lives between the relationship they lost and the possibility of finding each other again. Second Chances gives Charlie eight years to regret walking away from Mackayla. Kari and Kacey in Twice Upon a Time have spent an entire decade apart, while Once in a Lifetime reunites Leigh and Jodie after more than ten years.

Then there's Delay of Game, where twelve years have transformed Niki and Eva from elite hockey players and secret lovers into women facing very different stages of their lives and careers.

These aren't the same women who originally fell in love.

And that's the point.

A satisfying sapphic second chance romance doesn't ask whether the past can be recreated. It asks whether two people can take everything they've learnt since and create a relationship that has a better chance of surviving.


Lesbian Exes-to-Lovers Romance Makes Forgiveness Part of the Love Story

Second chances become considerably more complicated when one woman was responsible for breaking the other's heart.

Mackayla remembers Charlie walking away.

Lily remembers Bennett breaking her heart.

Avery had to watch Elise leave their relationship.

Kari spent ten years without understanding why Kacey destroyed the future they'd planned.

Jillian and Sloane apparently responded to their messy breakup by spending three years finding increasingly inventive ways to get revenge on each other.

Getting these women into the same room again is only the beginning.

For a lesbian exes-to-lovers romance to work, the original hurt can't simply disappear because the attraction returns. Apologies have to mean something. Trust needs rebuilding. Characters have to acknowledge what happened and, sometimes, accept that forgiveness isn't something they're automatically entitled to receive.

That makes the eventual romantic payoff far more satisfying.

The question stops being Do they still want each other?

Quite often, that's obvious.

The real question is whether wanting each other is enough.


Sapphic Second Chance Romance Can Mean Finding Love Again After Loss

Not every second chance begins with an ex.

Sometimes it's about believing that love itself might happen twice.

The Promise by Clare Highton-Stevenson explores this from a particularly emotional perspective. Ali isn't trying to recover a relationship that went wrong. She loses Susan, the woman with whom she expected to spend her life, to terminal cancer.

Susan's final request is that Ali doesn't close herself off from love forever.

When Blair eventually comes back into Ali's life, opening her heart means confronting the guilt that can accompany loving someone after bereavement. Ali must find a way to understand that moving forward doesn't erase the life and love she shared with Susan.

It expands the meaning of second chance romance beautifully.

Because sometimes a second chance isn't about getting her back.

It's about getting yourself back.

And allowing yourself to believe there might still be another chapter.


Frequently Asked Questions About Lesbian Second Chance Romance Books

What is a lesbian second chance romance?

A lesbian second chance romance is a love story in which two women are given another opportunity at a relationship or at finding lasting love. Most commonly, the trope involves former girlfriends, first loves or ex-partners reuniting after a separation, although it can also encompass stories about finding love again after bereavement or significant loss.

The essential ingredient is history. One or both characters enter the romance carrying a previous love, loss or relationship that profoundly affects their ability to embrace the future.

What are the best lesbian second chance romance books for exes-to-lovers fans?

If you specifically want former girlfriends getting another chance, try The Art of Us, Go Around, Second Chances, Twice Upon a Time, Once in a Lifetime, Double Exposure and Delay of Game.

They range from painful reunions after years apart to considerably more combative exes who still have enough chemistry to make staying away from each other difficult.

Which sapphic second chance romances have the longest separations?

Several books on this list make their characters wait years before giving love another chance. Don’t Circle Or reunites Morgan and Drew after fifteen years, while Delay of Game returns former lovers Niki and Eva to the Olympic stage twelve years after their relationship ended.

Once in a Lifetime features a reunion after more than a decade, and Twice Upon a Time puts Kari's college sweetheart literally next door after ten years apart.

If you particularly love the we haven't seen each other in years and now she's standing right there version of second chance romance, these are excellent choices.

Are there lesbian second chance romance books with forced proximity?

Yes. Go Around forces Avery into close quarters with her actress ex when a threatening fan means Elise needs somewhere safe to stay. Then & Now requires Lily to work with the woman who broke her heart, while Reckless Hearts puts Margo and Nell six feet apart in an office after four years of unresolved history.

Forced proximity works especially well with second chance romance because avoiding your feelings becomes considerably harder when avoiding the woman herself isn't an option.

Are there lesbian second chance sports romances?

Delay of Game by Tracey Richardson combines second chance romance with women's ice hockey and the Winter Olympics. Former lovers Niki and Eva find themselves reunited twelve years after the USA-Canada rivalry helped tear their relationship apart.

Second Chances by M.J. Duncan also has a sporting connection through Charlie's career as a successful sports journalist, although the central story isn't a sports competition romance.

Which second chance lesbian romances have the most angst?

For significant emotional history, The Art of Us, Don’t Circle Or, Twice Upon a Time, Reckless Hearts and The Promise all explore loss, regret, grief or unresolved pain alongside the romance.

If you'd rather balance the emotional tension with humour or action, Always Alex, Go Around and Double Exposure offer very different flavours of second chances.


Why the Best Lesbian Second Chance Romance Books Stay With Us

Perhaps second chance romance works because most of us understand the temptation behind it.

What if?

What if we'd met at a different time?

What if we'd been older?

What if we'd known then what we know now?

What if I'd stayed?

What if she'd asked me to?

The best lesbian second chance romance books take those questions and give their characters the opportunity most people never receive: the chance to find out.

Sometimes years have passed. Sometimes there are careers, children, marriages, grief and whole lives between the first love story and the second. Sometimes the women barely recognise the people they used to be.

But something remains.

A memory.

An unanswered question.

A hurt that never completely healed.

Or simply the irritating realisation that nobody else has ever quite been her.

From former college sweethearts and childhood best friends to rival hockey players, art thieves and women reunited in offices far too small for unresolved feelings, these sapphic second chance romances prove that a happy ending doesn't always arrive the first time around.

Sometimes love needs another go.

And sometimes the second version is the one that lasts.


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Ruby Scott is a Scotland-based lesbian romance author. Two-time Lesfic Bard Award winner. Two-time Goldie Award finalist. Read more at rubyscott.shop.