Renewed Hearts

Renewed Hearts

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Paperback

Genres: African American, Contemporary

Tropes: Second chance romance, Redemption ARC, Slow Burn, Soulmate, Later in Life

C.M. Barnes

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Forever is a long time… until it’s not.

For fifteen years, Victoria “Tori” Ballard and Zaire “Zye” Mason built a life most people only dream about—a thriving family, successful careers, and a love story that began when they were teenagers. Then, somewhere between promotions, parenthood, and the words I’m tired, they stopped choosing each other.

Ten years after their divorce, they’ve become experts at pretending they’re over each other.

Tori has perfected the art of keeping her heart behind designer suits and impossible work schedules. Zye has buried his regrets beneath the hood of the empire he built with his own hands. They’ve both moved on… at least that’s the story they keep telling themselves.

But when life—and their grown children—keep throwing them back into each other’s orbit, old sparks become impossible to ignore. What begins as awkward family gatherings and reluctant conversations turns into something far more dangerous, renewed attraction.

Now they’ll have to face the mistakes that broke them, the pride that kept them apart, and the question neither of them has been brave enough to ask for a decade:

Can the greatest love of your life become the love of your life again?