I feel like this series is just getting better and better. You can tell that Bailey is getting her groove in this world and with these characters. This is the best in my opinion (so far). I have said it before, and I will say it again. Second change. Gets me. EVERY TIME. We got hints of the magnitude of Denver and Blair throughout Seeing Red, but reading their story was just sooo good. As much as it pains me to see where things went off the rails, I do love a good dual POV AND dual timeline. This had both. We finally get to hear inside of Blair's head. She is having to move home to help with her family. This is a place that she has been avoiding for almost 15 years because of the amount of heartache it brings her. And then we have Denver who likes to play the field. He is the fun one in the group- always smiling and trying to be the life of the party. I LOVED reading about him seeing Blair for the first time and how from then on his whole focus was her and proving to her that he is a different man than when they were 18 and everything fell apartment. THIS MAN YALL. Denver was such a softy. He knew the things that made Blair smile. He was a safe place for her to land. He wanted to help her with the load she was carrying. The other thing I love about second chance is reading that the feelings have never gone away. I really liked reading about Blair's walls coming down. I also liked that she tried to hold out but could only do so much against the man she never stopped loving. I really enjoyed the delicacy to which Bailey handled all of the heavier topics in this one. There are some heavy ones- but in discussing them it gave us a bigger picture of both of these characters. 

Blair has made the decision to put her life on hold in Vancouver to come home and help her family. This is a place she dreads coming to not because of her family but because of her past. Specifically Denver Wells. They were everything to each other through some really tough times until they crashed and burned. Unfortunately Blair knows exactly how Denver has been spending his time which doesn't bode well for him when he starts to try to rekindle what they had. Friends. That is what they can be. No more. She can't let him. She doesn't know if he will stay. But man is he determined to prove her wrong. Because the man is showing up for her even when she isn't asking him to. He isn't judging her for where she is with her life now. He just wants to be a part of it. And the more they are around each other the more Blair feels her walls coming down. The more she realizes she has been fooling herself this whole time if she thought she would be able to be with anyone but Denver. He supports her unlike he ever did before. The question is will she be able to trust him when he says he is committed to them? That he wants the future they discussed when they were younger? 

Denver enjoys his life. No strings. Just fun. That has been his motto since his heart moved to Vancouver 15 years ago. But then he sees her again. And it is like seeing the sun for the first time after a storm. He has one new goal now- to win Blair back over. To show her that he isn't the man he was before when they were younger. He can be what she needs. He can be what they both need. He decides that he will wait as long as it takes because though he has been playing the field for a long time he has never been in it. So when Blair says they can be friends. He takes it. When she starts to lean on him for things, he takes on more to help with the load she is carrying. He slowly starts to see her walls come down and man is he ready. He has known since he saw her again and has been waiting for her to catch up. And though he can see she still doesn't fully trust him- he can see it's only a matter of time. He just has to remind her of what they had. 

UGH these characters!! Denver was the ultimate cinnamon roll MC. Just cushy and gooey and warm in the center. And he worked sooo hard to get Blair to see what they could be together. I loved the spice in this one- the way that they had to relearn and even learn things about each other was super cute. I loved being able to learn more about the "elder" Wells- Bennett and Lucy. I loved watching Blair give herself space to FEEL things- things she had been shoving down for a while. This was a book about healing for both characters. About finding your person even if it takes some work. About finding home in someone. I can't WAIT to see where else this series takes us. If you haven't picked it up yet- do it. You won't regret it!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!