"It's such a lovely, emotional story, in parts your heart will be breaking. One to read in a comfortable chair on a winter's day." Netgalley review

"I loved this book about an older woman who leaves her abusive husband and retreats to a cottage. She finds a second chance at love." Netgalley review

"A great nostalgic book for anyone who grew up in the 70s like I did." Goodreads review

" I liked the story because it truly showed who she was, her dreams, what she did when her dreams didn't pan out." Goodreads review

In 1968, they blew their chance for happiness together. Can they find a way to do it right this time?

From the author of Venice: Tragic love during the Great War — A moving new story about a troubled and conflicted woman who reconnects with her long-lost love from the past.

Crest Hill, Alabama 2016

After enduring forty-three years of mental abuse and infidelity for the sake of her now-grown children, Annie Martin Blake files for divorce from successful banker Paul Blake. She is now a wealthy but lonely 65-year-old woman lacking in self-confidence and painful social anxiety.

Annie finds her safe haven in a 1920s cottage with an overgrown and struggling vintage garden. There she re-discovers her secret journal and a tattered scrapbook recounting her life in the psychedelic summer of 1968. As she revisits her own teenage words, Annie describes her first true love — Mitch Brandon — the boy who captured her heart at first glance fifty years ago and still occupies the deepest corner of her soul.

When Mitch Brandon turns up again in Annie’s life, the deep love and memories between them come flooding back — but their feelings must remain hidden. Mitch is trapped in a bad marriage and sees no way out.

But when another man enters Annie’s life, he rebuilds her self-confidence and eases the plaguing social anxiety. Annie wants to forget the demons from her past and hopes for a second chance at happiness. But is she listening to her heart? What is it telling her?

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