The Second Time

Evan Stein never told Daria Kovalenko he loved her.

For six weeks in Carolina Beach, the Ukrainian painter and the American filmmaker became something neither of them had planned. Daria was in the United States for an art residency. Evan was simply doing his job for Port City Productions. They knew from the beginning that she would return to Kyiv, so when the time came, Daria let their affair become a beautiful memory.

Evan never really did.

Eight months later, while browsing CamGirlsToGo.com, he sees something that stops him cold: one of Daria’s paintings hanging in the background of an empty webcam room.

Then a masked woman walks into frame.

Evan doesn’t reveal himself. Not yet.

Behind an anonymous username, he begins talking to her. Night after night, the conversations deepen. She starts waiting for him to appear. Trusting him. Wanting him. Falling for him.

Without knowing she is falling for the same man twice.

As desire turns into intimacy and anonymity becomes impossible to maintain, Evan must face the truth he avoided eight months earlier—and Daria must decide whether love can survive the one thing neither of them planned for: the truth.

The Second Time is a sensual, emotionally charged contemporary romance about distance, identity, second chances, trust, and the strange ways love can recognize us even when we don’t recognize it ourselves.