Once in a lifetime
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  • Parts 11
  • Time 1h 45m
Ongoing, First published Jun 25, 2018
Susan Roberts, a small town doctor, has run away from her past more times than what she could count.  Now she settles down in the small town of Saint Mary with the hopes of finding a new beginning while trying to figure out where the missing pieces of her past are. 

 After two years and many challenges, Roman Chester, a famous baseball player, comes back and rumor has it that he has been looking for someone he loved years ago. 

Susan can't remember him, but the attraction she feels for him is surely something else. The thing with the guy next door is that he always feels like a deja vu until one sunny morning she finds out why. She feels like running away from the lies and the hurt from the family secrets, but she is braver than that. 

Even when she can't remember their past she keeps going back to Roman as if there was something more powerful than memories pulling them together into an emotional and beautiful love. 

Then they start a journey of trying to bring back the past without noticing that sometimes is better if we move forward with the future. 

They just need to remember that second chances don't come so often when a love like this happens only Once in a lifetime. 



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Coming Home

41 parts Complete Mature

[Small Town / Second Chance] When Jennifer heads back to her hometown after ten years to celebrate her grandmother's 70th birthday, she knows she'll have to face Matthew, once the love of her life. But what both of them don't expect is to have the feelings they had long buried inside to flourish back to life along with walls of resentment, and a sizzling attraction. ***** Jennifer Bloom has completely escaped her small-town past. She's a successful interior designer with great clients and everything she's ever wanted. But when she's called back home to help plan her grandmother's 70th birthday party, she's partnered up with Matthew Hunt - once the love of her life. He's lived in town his whole life, and he's handsome, strong, kind, and the only man who's ever made her heart race. Experiencing life with Matthew again reminds Jennifer of all the things she's missing, even though she's got everything she once wanted. At one point, all those years ago, they thought they'd be spending their lives together, but life threw them a curveball, forcing her to make the decision to leave and never look back. Now, they realize love was never an issue; their problem has always been everything that comes in-between. He'd never move to the city, and Jennifer can't leave the life she's built behind. Walls of resentment still block the way, even though their love for each other still burns strong in their hearts. Can true love bridge the distance between them? Is love ever enough to make a relationship work? Is it finally their second chance?