Last Christmases & Second Chances

A Second-Chance Christmas Romance

De: Thomas Lee

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Last Christmas, Hannah and Grant Wilder bought a set of divorce papers and pretended it was just another item on the holiday list.

This Christmas, the town of Hollyridge is determined to pull them back into every tradition they once loved—whether their fractured marriage survives it or not.

From the outside, the Wilders still look like the couple people point to when they say, “That’s what real love looks like.” Hannah runs the bakery that keeps Main Street warm all winter long—cinnamon rolls, peppermint mochas, and the kind of window displays that make strangers stop and smile. Grant is the dependable one: steady, hardworking, the man who shows up before anyone asks and carries the heavy things without complaint.

But behind the curated charm and practiced togetherness, something has been breaking for years.

Twelve Christmases of unmet expectations.
Twelve years of swallowed words.
A thousand tiny disappointments that never seemed big enough to fight about—until they became too heavy to ignore.

Now they’re living in the same house like polite roommates, trading kindness for distance, and quietly counting the days until they can make the separation official. Their plan is simple: keep things civil through the holidays, avoid a public meltdown in a town that notices everything, and sign the papers after New Year’s.

Then a single week derails every careful boundary they’ve built.

A last-minute request from Hannah’s family forces them back to the place where their story began—a snow-prone farmhouse outside town filled with half-packed boxes, old photographs, and memories neither of them has been brave enough to face. A sudden winter storm traps them together just as Hollyridge’s biggest holiday events kick off: the tree-lighting, the charity auction, the gingerbread competition, and the candlelit service that used to be their favorite night of the year.

And when they uncover a bundle of letters—written decades ago by a woman who loved fiercely, lost painfully, and chose forgiveness anyway—Hannah and Grant are forced to confront the question they’ve been dodging since last Christmas:

Are they truly out of love… or simply out of practice?

Because the truth is, Hannah isn’t only angry. She’s tired—of carrying the emotional weight, of feeling invisible in her own marriage, of begging (quietly, repeatedly) for a partner who reaches back. And Grant isn’t only distant. He’s afraid—of failing again, of saying the wrong thing, of opening his heart just to watch her walk away anyway.

The closer Christmas gets, the harder it becomes to pretend their story is already over.

A single shared bed in a house that creaks with winter.
A disastrous public moment that forces honesty.
A choice at the worst possible time.
A kiss that changes the rules.
A conversation they should’ve had years ago—finally said out loud.

But second chances don’t come wrapped in bows.

They come with accountability.
With brave apologies.
With the risk of wanting someone again—when they could still leave.

And in a small town that believes love is worth fighting for, Hannah and Grant have one final Christmas to decide what their future will be:

A clean break…
or a new beginning.

If you love romances with:

• Married couple / “divorce looming” tension

• Small-town Christmas traditions and community vibes

• Forced proximity + snowed-in intimacy

• Emotional healing, honest conversations, and earned forgiveness

• Fast-paced chapters, bingeable momentum, and satisfying payoff

• Clean/closed-door chemistry (heartfelt heat without explicit scenes)

…then LAST CHRISTMASES & SECOND CHANCES is your next cozy, can’t-put-it-down read.

One week. One storm. One last Christmas to choose each other—again.