This is my second book by Anabel, and I really liked it. Even though it is February and winter in Atlanta- this was my mental beach read LOL. I am a sucker for second chances as you now (and sibling's best friend), and the way that Anabel wove this second chance was wonderful. I liked the dual POV and that we only heard from Wyatt in the past when things went sideways. This was a very slow burn with not almost zero spice BUT I enjoyed the buildup of what was going to happen. We meet Sam (our FMC) who is engaged to her dream man (more like her safe man). When visiting her parents summer house she runs into her ex and first love Wyatt. The man who ghosted her. The man who changed her in so many ways. The man she can't look at now without feeling something. I liked Wyatt's role in this book. He respected Sam's engagement. Made no attempts at any funny business but was just more there. He PUSHED Sam to see that she had been living in a bubble of sorts since things got so broken. Of course he wanted her but he couldn't see how that would happen with where they were. I enjoyed watching Sam slowly unravel and hearing comments from her family like you look happy and you look different. 

Sam has her life planned out to a T. Literally. Her and Jack will get married. They will have kid 1 in 3 years followed by kid 2 exactly 3 years later. She will work at her corporate job and just never visit the beach house again. There are too many memories. But Jack has never been and insists on going to see her parents. Which is how Sam has found herself surrounded by memories and pain at the beach house. Oh and her family failed to mention that Wyatt. HER Wyatt. Is in town. Like next door. How is she going to handle this? Apparently not well since she can't form sentences around the man. How can he look even better than he did before? How does he look so unaffected? How has her trip been extended from a weekend to a week all of a sudden? Sam finds herself relaxing. And enjoying herself. She swims with her sister. She surfs. She talks to Wyatt and they decide to try to be friends. She finds out that even though he doesn't seem affected by what transpired between them all those years ago- he was. She finds out he hasn't been telling her things. But why would he? They just drifted. So when he leaves to go back to LA- she finds herself sad. She finds herself not fitting in the way she did before in the city. She finds herself back at the beach this time without Jack. And what do you know- Wyatt is here too. But things have shifted. It doesn't seem that he can fake how he is feeling anymore. And when he leaves again Sam finds herself questioning when her life got so off track? Where did she lose herself? And does she have the strength to walk away and do what she ACTUALLY wants? And will Wyatt be there to see it? 

This was a story about grief and different ways people respond to it. Watching Sam shed her bubble of protection and embrace what she was feeling made me REALLY happy. Reading about her and Wyatt and how their relationship bloomed felt SOO special. Reading them about how it fell apart broke my heart. UGH- it was just tragic and beyond hard to comprehend how someone could handle what they went through. But then reading about them finding each other again. How Wyatt helped the old Sam come back and feel safe about it- made it all worth it. I definitely would recommend this one for a feel good read :)

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