GRR Reviews Love, Second Time Around: A Summerfie by Penny Appleton

Love, Second Time Around is a contemporary romance that deal with the older crowd, the empty nesters who have grown children but wanted to spend their life with someone they love.

Maggie Stewart is a retired lawyer, trying to keep up with the old cottage she owned in Summerfield village, England. All her children are grown and have their own families, and she's content to ride her horses and occasionally consult to pay for the upkeep. Until she came up against a man she had admired... many years ago, Greg Warren. Greg was a ranch owner in Idaho, rich, and a widower, who consults with the oil companies, with a daughter who's hostile to any female that's not her dead mother (i.e. everyone). The two became fond of each other, and invited each other to their respective homes, as both felt the loneliness of their lives and wanted to take a chance with each other. But is there a way to reconcile the two separate worlds they live in?

Most romances tend to with the young crowd, so finding a novel that deal with romance with people in their 40's (or perhaps a little more) was surprising and charming. The plot was slow, but this is a pretty "cozy" romance where things move at its own pace.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Retired lawyer in England falls for retired consultant and ranch owner in Idaho, USA; what do they share beyond love of horses?

Tropes: reunion, different worlds

Overall Rating:  4/5