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Margin of Error

by Rachel Lacey

A second chance, an old mystery, and a changing friendship

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A second chance, an old mystery, and a changing friendship

Two years after a near-fatal Manhattan accident, Marin has rebuilt her life around choices she once postponed, including beginning to date women. A chance encounter from that day connects her again with Charlotte, who has returned to her Vermont hometown to investigate her mother’s disappearance three decades earlier. As their friendship deepens and Charlotte questions her sexuality, the romance unfolds alongside the search for answers about her family. The setup links personal reinvention with two kinds of discovery: understanding what each woman wants, and uncovering what happened in Charlotte’s past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Romance readers interested in a friends-to-lovers relationship between women.
  • Readers who enjoy romantic plots paired with a family mystery.
  • Readers drawn to stories of second chances and self-discovery.

Themes

Second chancesFriends to loversSexuality and self-discoveryFamily mysteryPersonal reinvention

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Book overview

From Rachel Lacey, author of Learning Curves, comes a tender, hopeful romance about how fate is what you're given but love is what you choose, and how small sparks can change everything.

Two years after an accident in Manhattan almost claimed her life, Marin is determined to take advantage of her second chance. She's left her husband, her job, even her home to pursue the life she's always wanted. Now she's teaching statistics at Northshire University and preparing to do something she's spent decades dreaming about: date a woman. But the last woman she expects to encounter on her journey is the one she's been fantasizing about since their chance encounter the morning Marin nearly died.

Charlotte has made big changes in her life since that fateful day too. Most importantly, she's moved back to her Vermont hometown, determined to finally solve the thirty-year-old mystery of her mother's disappearance. An unexpected--and unexpectedly intense--friendship? That wasn't in the plan. Neither was questioning her sexuality, but the more time Charlotte spends with Marin, the more she realizes her feelings run deeper than friendship.

Surely this would be a disaster, both of them being each other's first, except the chemistry between them feels too strong to deny. But as they get to the heart of the mystery--and the heart of who they are--what brought them together just might tear them apart.

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