Second Courses

She takes over her cheating ex's restaurant and hires her first love as chef-putting second chances back on the menu.

"Delightfully warm and deliciously honest, Robin Blackburn's Second Courses serves up beautiful life lessons about the importance of confidence and self-love, proving that it's never too late to start a bold new chapter. With prose as crisp as your favorite prosecco, you'll devour this story of resilience, forgiveness, and the possibility that love might be sweeter the second time around." -Suzy England, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Perfect

Lyndsay Leach spent seventeen years supporting her celebrity-chef husband, but when he leaves her for a much younger woman, she makes a bold-and slightly pLyndsay Leach spent seventeen years supporting her celebrity-chef husband, but when he leaves her for a much younger woman, she makes a bold-and slightly petty-move: She takes the one thing he never thought she would, his prized Lake George restaurant.

There's just one problem. She's never run a kitchen, her secret writing career has stalled, and her first love just walked through the door and wants the head chef job. Okay, more than one problem.

Now, with her ex opening a rival restaurant right down the road, a scathing food critic on the way, Lyndsay has one shot to prove that she's no longer a supporting character in someone else's story-and maybe find love at the same time.

Of course, nothing's easy, as Lyndsay soon finds out. But sometimes the second course is the one worth waiting for.

Tropes you'll love:

• Second chance romance
• First love reunited
• Forced proximity
• Midlife reinvention
• Love after divorce
• Small-town lake setting
• Restaurant drama
• 80s references