When I was a young woman, I didn’t feel so lucky in love. I was head-over-heels in love with my first husband, the father of my children. You guessed it. The marriage didn’t last.
Fortunately for me, I was eventually lucky in love. My husband Bill and I have been married twenty-one years.
The years in between were hard: raising two children by myself, dealing with the ex, working a day job. However, I never gave up hope of finding true love.
That’s probably why I like to write second chance romances.
Second chance romance is a romance trope.
Sophie Pembroke in a blog called The Top 12 Most Powerful Tropes in Romance Novels listed it as one of the popular twelve.
• Friends to Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Fake Relationship
• Enemies to Lovers
• Marriage of Convenience
• Accidental Pregnancy/Secret Baby/Suddenly Parents
• Second Chance Romance
• Best Friend’s Brother/Sister
• Workplace Romance
• Royalty, Sheikhs, Celebrities and Billionaires
• Amnesia/Mistaken Identity
• Runaway Brides, Best Men and Wedding Planners
She defined a trope like this: “Trope: (in a romantic novel) a plot, theme, device or character used so often that it has become a convention within the genre.”
There’s a debate about what constitutes a “second chance.” Is it when the same couple gets back together probably years later? Or could it be a person, who has lost her first partner, finds love again with a new one?
The idea behind my Bluegrass Reunion Series, for the most part, is about the same couple coming together again after a period of time. Sometimes I throw in a “secret baby” or a single mom—and of course, a horse or two. In other books, my heroine will find her lucky in love partner with a new guy, someone she’s just met.
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Good luck and enjoy!
