Surprising Chapter

She flew to Mexico to save on dental work. She hadn't accounted for feelings.After a long, successful academic career, Claire is finally ready to turn the page. Retirement should feel like freedom...and mostly, it does. When her book club advises her toward something bold, she books a practical trip to Mexico: world-class dental care at a fraction of the cost back home. Smart, savvy, and sensible.She doesn't expect Patrick.Her host is warm, well-read, and rather attractive. A fellow book lover with a quick wit and an easy laugh, Patrick has a way of making Mexico feel like exactly where Claire was always meant to land. Their conversations stretch long past sunset. Their friendship quietly becomes something more.Then one night, everything shifts. A sudden fall. Patrick's swift, steady instinct to protect her. And Claire, heart racing for reasons that have nothing to do with her dental appointments, can no longer pretend she isn't feeling something real.But just as Claire leans into this unexpected joy, a hidden truth surfaces. Her past rushes into the present and forces her to question everything she thought she knew about the man who caught her.Surprising Chapter is a heartwarming, clean romance about reinvention, the courage to begin again, and the delightful shock of finding love in the last place you planned to look. Book 2 in the Book Club Babes Romances series. Can be read as a standalone. No explicit content. Guaranteed Oh My Gosh moment.Readers Who Love This Book Also Love·         International travel romance novels·         Women reinventing life after 60·         Mexico-set women's fiction·         Witty feel-good romance with a twist·         Retirement and new beginnings stories·         Clean romance — no explicit content·         Book lovers and bibliophile romance·         Found family book club fiction