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Second Chance Romance Explained, With 7 Free Stories
ByVesna Adair March 18, 2026October 2, 2026

What is second chance romance? Second chance romance is a love story in which at least one of the lovers has already lost once. In its strictest form the couple parted years ago and meet again. In its wider form, the one most readers actually mean, someone arrives at the story carrying a failed marriage,…
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The Glassblower’s Requiem
ByVesna Adair March 18, 2026August 10, 2026

The church of St. Crispin the Martyr had been bombed in 1941, rebuilt in 1953, and was now, in the wet autumn of the present day, losing its windows. Not to vandals or weather, but to something more insidious: the lead cames that held the stained glass panels were crystallising, turning brittle with age and…
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