Second Chance Love

When Elaina Casaluna finally walks away from a marriage built on silence, she rebuilds her life one ordinary miracle at a time-two babies, a cardboard notebook of rules, and a name she learns to wear again. Five years later, a chance encounter blows open a buried truth: the "lost" third child she was told to grieve may have been taken, not gone.

As Elaina returns to Cook to fight a crooked redevelopment of her mother's home, she's pulled into a tangle of hospital paperwork, a glossy foundation with too much to hide, and Grayson Wilson-the husband who never loved her right but won't look away now. A mistaken-identity reunion between two boys who look like mirrors forces open every locked door: custody, consent, and what it would take to start over without erasing the woman Elaina became to survive.

Told in Elaina's fierce, intimate voice-with chapters from the children and a man learning to be the wall, not the weather-Second Chance Love blends legal suspense with family healing. This is a story about boundaries that hold, love with receipts, and a small bench made from an old gate where truths are told in pieces and everyone learns how to show up.