Fighting Feelings (and a Christmas Truce)

This is the fourth and final book in the Second Chance Chronicles (although all the stories can be read as standalones).

When Ruth goes to a gig and spends a night of passion with singer Sienna, she doesn’t expect it to go anywhere. As a grieving widow and busy hospital CEO, Ruth enjoys their moment but doesn’t want a relationship.

Ruth doesn’t expect to see Sienna again. But when protestors gather at her hospital to stop a merger she approved, she spots Sienna through the December snow, waving a placard.

On opposing sides of the debate, the women clash, with 28-year-old Sienna using her legal knowledge to make life harder for 45-year-old Ruth.

Sienna gets under Ruth's skin, but is it more than annoyance? Maybe Ruth’s being too Scrooge-like. Before long it's difficult to deny their growing chemistry, despite clashing over an emotive issue that affects them both personally.

Will Ruth and Sienna work out their differences in time for a festive truce? Will their age-gap stand in the way of their attraction? And can Ruth imagine once again sharing Christmas with someone else?

Don’t miss this dramatic, humorous and festive story of love between enemies from the award-winning author of Swiping Right (and other disasters) and Don’t Fall in Love (and how to break the rules) and Faking It (and falling in love).Perfect for fans of Clare Lydon, Casey McQuiston and Clare Ashton.

This books features popular lesbian and WLW romance tropes including second chances, friends to lovers, love after 40, one night to forever, rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers and age gap romance. Set in the United Kingdom you'll find all the feels and all the laughs.

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What the readers say

A lesbian Kings Heath Jane Austen with added spice!

Five stars! The fourth and concluding novel of The Second Chance Chronicles features a lovely interracial, age-gap, lesbian romance between hospital administrator Ruth and the younger Sienna, who works in the legal field as well as being a part-time solo musician. The women meet at one of Sienna’s gigs and afterwards spend a passionate night together. In the 5 years since her wife died Ruth has never considered starting a new long term relationship, so the one night stand with Sienna is par for the course, sadly. Never expecting to cross paths again, Ruth is shocked that the person leading the protests against her ruthless/necessary decision to close the local hospital is none other than Sienna. If they’re on opposite sides of the argument there’s definitely no chance of anything further happening between them…is there?

Brilliantly funny and heart-warming! Five stars!

Ruth and singer, Sienna spend a passionate night together after a Sienna’s gig, but recently widowed and struggling with work, Ruth doesn’t want a relationship. Ruth is then surprised to find Sienna is the leader of the protestors outside of the hospital where she works. Fate has other ideas that mean they keep bumping into one another, despite their differences and the slight tension now between them.

This was so funny, but also had a lot of heart and meaning built in between it. The tension between Ruth and Sienna instantly created sparks and when fate put them back into one another’s paths it had other plans for them too. Ruth showed what a kind and caring person she was when Sienna needed help, and Sienna forced Ruth to re-evaluate some things she thought weren’t possible. Together they had a wonderful connection, when they put aside the issues they had with one another’s choices about saving the hospital.