So, she’s come home to lick her wounds and act as referee between her sisters. Her next relationship ended in failure, after she invested five years with the man. Annie has been encouraging that thinking for years.Įmily’s husband was killed while serving on the USS Cole. Charlotte thinks Gray took the opportunity to sleep with Annie, her younger and vivacious sister. Charlotte and her long-time love, Gray, haven’t been able to mend the rift that happened long ago, when, in a moment of desperation after her father’s funeral, she called off her engagement to Gray unless he quit being a fisherman, since the sea had taken her father. The story is a three-act structure, with each sister getting her moment to shine. They have to come back to their childhood home and live together for one year.

Their mother, in her infinite wisdom, crafted her will so the sisters would have to confront their self-imposed demons in order to gain control of the family fortune. It’s also a tale about three sisters, whose childish behavior during a family crisis twenty years prior had serious ramifications on where their lives are today. In my book, Blame It On The Brontes, there’s a lot of trouble in the Bronson household, and it’s not just between the women and their men. If you made the wrong choice with a lover from long ago and have always regretted it, or if someone in your past did you wrong and put you off from trying a new relationship, second chance romances are tailor-made for you. This isn’t their first rodeo, and they have lived long enough to have some flubs and skeletons in their closets.

The heroes and heroines are usually a bit older than standard fare romances. That’s what second chance romances are all about.

When you were a kid and something didn’t go as planned, wasn’t it great to be able to yell “Do Over” and fix whatever the problem had been? If only the big flubs in life were so simple to fix. They bring emotional as well as physical baggage as they return to the town, and to the men of Puffin Bay.Today, we have Becky Lower talking about “Do Overs” and her latest book, Blame It on the Brontes. As a condition of their mother’s will, each has to move back to their family home for one year. The women had had a tempestuous relationship their entire lives, but it’s escalated into all-out war over the past eighteen years.

Sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, each in her forties, reunite in the small coastal Maine town where they grew up for their mother’s funeral. Three unruly sisters must move in together for a year in order to inherit an estate.įeaturing: Emily Bronson Charlotte Bronson Anne Bronson The Tempestuous Debutante, September 2013 The Duplicitous Debutante, September 2014

Blame It On The Brontes by Becky Lower