Costa Rican Bloom: A Later in Life Romance Novel

By Dana Velle

Her body was keeping score. The Ticker on her wrist had the data to prove it.

Chloe Stone has optimized everything-her career, her schedule, her water intake down to the ounce. As a senior associate at a Manhattan law firm, she's on the verge of making partner. She's also having panic attacks on the bathroom floor while her fitness tracker buzzes warnings she can't afford to hear.

When her best friends stage an intervention disguised as a girls' trip, Chloe finds herself in the Costa Rican jungle-no cell service, no productivity metrics, no escape. Just waterfalls, howler monkeys, and Mateo Vargas, a conservation guide who moves through the world with the kind of unhurried presence that makes her want to scream. Or surrender.

As the jungle strips away her carefully constructed armor, Chloe must confront an uncomfortable truth: the life she's been killing herself to build might be the very thing that's killing her.

Costa Rican Bloom is a story about the courage it takes to stop performing success and start actually living-about finding yourself in the last place you'd ever think to look.

Part of the Mid-Life Escapes series. Each book follows a different woman finding herself in the most beautiful places on earth. Can be read as a standalone.

For readers who loved The Authenticity Project and Beach Read*-and anyone who's ever fantasized about throwing their phone into the ocean.*

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GR3W6PX4
• ISBN13: 9798250606462
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"