Second Chance Romance Books: 10 Reads from Classics to Tonight

At nineteen, Anne Elliot is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer with no fortune. Eight years later he returns, wealthy and unmarried, and she has to face what she gave up.

Persephone spent six teenage summers at a lake with Sam Florek, then broke his heart and stayed away for twelve years. A funeral brings her back to the lake, and to him.

Dawson Cole returns to his hometown to carry out the last wishes of his surrogate father, and finds that his high school sweetheart Amanda has been called there too.

Harriet and Wyn split up months earlier without telling their friends. At the Maine beach cottage for the group's last summer trip, they have to pretend they are still a happy couple.

An old man reads a notebook aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's, telling the story of Noah and Allie, whose summer romance ends when she leaves town and who find each other again years later.

Macy, a new pediatrics resident engaged to a financially secure man, runs into Elliot Petropoulos, her first and only love, after the two have been strangers for more than a decade.