Be Mine This Time

From the CIBA Chatelaine Grand Prize winning author of The Art of Enchantment —

Kate O'Day has built a careful life. Meaningful work. Safe relationships. Careful distances.

As a Vancouver family mediator, she's spent years helping other people save their marriages — which suits her fine. Getting close enough to need saving herself is not part of the plan.

Then Simon Sharpe walks into her latest case, and fifteen years dissolve.

He was her first love and her deepest wound — the man who chose someone else and left her to rebuild from the wreckage. Now he's back, older and more complicated than she remembered, independent legal counsel for a marriage she's been hired to save. He's also, inconveniently, still attached.

Working alongside Simon is the hardest thing Kate has ever done. Every session reopens something she thought long healed. And the closer they get to saving their clients' marriage, the more she has to face what she never fully grieved — and what she might still want.

A story about the wounds we carry quietly, the love we never quite release, and whether second chances are wisdom or just beautiful mistakes.

CIBA Chatelaine Grand Prize Winning Author — Romance & Women's Fiction