Title: Second Chance Weekend
Author: Hazel Belle
Date: 2023
Publisher: Hazel Belle
Quote: "If you were ever going to ask a man out, it should have been Aiden from college."
By one of those strange coincidences that used to define fiction as "romantic" whether it featured a "love story" or not, Rylee runs into Aiden From College on her next vacation trip. They were good friends then and like each other even better now that they're full-grown. Their relationship is not even the issue of suspense in this short novel. The story is really about Rylee's career and how she relates to her work.
Is the author sugar-coating things? Not necessarily. For quite a few women, even early marriage does not mean babies, and marriage doesn't cost our careers a thing. So this romance is recommended to women who need to be reminded that men who are worth marrying, like Aiden, actually want wives who have their own careers, take their work seriously, and are successful. If anything, today's men aren't sympathetic enough to the amount of energy babies, if conceived, will siphon away from women's jobs. Rylee's lucky to find a man who only thinks he wouldn't be compatible with someone less ambitious than he. Most men also want to depend on a second income.
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