Once, a terrible scandal forced Bradford Pemberton to lose both his land and his fiancée, Verity Morrison.  Now, twelve years later, Bradford has returned to London and only his nephew, Charlie, knows it.  While Bradford cannot forget Verity, he assumes that in the passing years she has married and left behind the memory of their ill-fated romance.  What Bradford doesn’t know is that Verity refused ever to marry.  Instead, she lives with her family, helping to raise her young niece, Lisbet.

Lisbet travels to London to make her debut wanting to take London by storm and, though she won’t admit it, impress her childhood playmate Charlie.  But Lisbet’s trip isn’t all she planned, as her chaperone, her aunt Catherine, is a notorious gambler indebted to a disreputable fortune-hunter.  Verity soon finds herself in London, determined to free Lisbet from Catherine’s clutches.  When Verity discovers Bradford is in town, the plot thickens, as she believes him to be in love with Catherine and he believes her to be wed to another.  Where lies, misconceptions, and hesitant hearts reign, will a few abductions and a dash of chaos be what it takes to help four people find their true loves?

With nearly as many threads as a Shakespeare comedy, Second Chance may sound as if it has a few too many threads.  Yet when reading Second Chance, I was impressed how each storyline seamlessly wove in and out of every other, allowing me to see the story progress from multiple points of view without the book getting bogged down in the process.