Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Synopsis

A divorced couple keeps showing up for each other — co-parenting, still running a restaurant side by side — years after a miscarriage sent one of them into grief and the other into overfunctioning until the marriage finally broke. The turning point isn’t a grand romantic gesture; it’s their son asking his father a simple, devastating question about therapy, which cracks open everything neither parent had been willing to say out loud.

Why We Loved It

The final two stages of The Second Chance Blueprint are CHANGE and PROOF. You can’t just hope that the couple will figure it out — you have to believe that they’ve changed enough that they won’t fall apart this time, that they’re stronger than the first time around.

And with Yasmen and Josiah, they have all the other parts too — the history of when things were good, the distance between them, the reckoning where they have to acknowledge the hurt.

But in the end, Kennedy Ryan scrapes your heart across the coals so that you know, beyond a doubt, that this time, they’re stronger than before.

Where We've Discussed This

• This one won one of Meg’s 90 | The Second Annual Tingly Awards winners.
• We also discussed on episode 97 | Second Chance Romance: Why We Love Getting Back Together
• And it’s on our list of our favorite Second Chance Romance Novels