Love, Lies and Second Chances

By Erica Bunker

Welcome to Atlanta, where second acts come wrapped in grown-woman wisdom, complicated pasts, and no tolerance for foolishness.

Vanessa, Patrice, Sheree, and Yolanda are four fiercely independent Black women in their fifties, each grappling with heartbreak, reinvention, and the quiet resilience it takes to start over.

Vanessa finally walks away from a decades-long marriage to a serial cheater, determined to rebuild her life alongside her daughter and reclaim her sense of self. Patrice is a high-powered attorney whose ambition has left her lonely at the top-and whose unresolved tension with her smooth-talking rival threatens to upend her carefully curated plans. Sheree has poured years into a job that keeps passing her over, but she refuses to let anyone-least of all the system-keep her stuck. And Yolanda is a widow still haunted by grief, until a chance connection-and a risky leap back into dating-forces her to confront whether she's ready to love again.

As their paths cross in unexpected ways, these women learn that sometimes reinvention doesn't look like you imagined-and healing isn't about erasing your past, but owning every lesson it left behind.

Love, Lies and Second Chances is a sharp, funny, and deeply moving celebration of friendship, midlife resilience, and the audacious pursuit of joy-no matter how many times you have to begin again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FH7F29XL
• ISBN13: 9798230803348
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Erica Bunker
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"