07.38: Second Chance Romance Redux
Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast
Fated Mates
4.9 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
We're taking a second run at second chance romance this week, and while we intended to recommend a million books, we ended up talking about all the ways this trope really works and really doesn't work for us! We're talking about rekindling love, unrequited love, resurrecting old wounds, the unforgivable stuff and of course, pining. It's a long one, and yes, Jen is talking about present tense.
If you love this one, you can listen to our first Second Chance Romance episode with Priscilla Oliveras here.
It's that time of year again--Sarah's next book, These Summer Storms is out in July and she is going on tour! What's more, there is a real deal Fated Mates LIVE planned for July 8th in St. Louis, MO! Get tickets to any of these events (Jen will be at a bunch of them, and other pod friends will be popping up along the way) at sarahmaclean.net/tour! If you can't make the tour, you can preorder These Summer Storms signed with a special romance dust jacket from The Ripped Bodice.
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The Books
- Love’s Encore by Rachel Ryan
- Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan
- Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas
- Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean
- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean
- Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
- If I Told You, I’d Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel
- Left of Forever by Tarah DeWitt
- Designing his Duchess by Gabrielle Carr
- A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria
- Broken by the Horde King by Zoey Draven
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I, Eric, this morning was like, did you guys record this week's episode? And I was like, no. And he's like, I feel like you've been recording a lot of episodes. Why is this week's not one of them? And I was like, listen, don't question the process. |
| 0:13.6 | He was like, I need to question this process of it. In fact, I do question the process. He was like, in fact, it is kind of my job to question the process. |
| 0:24.1 | You know, sometimes it's just the way it goes. |
| 0:27.5 | It is. |
| 0:28.0 | It is. |
| 0:29.6 | It's true. |
| 0:30.2 | Sometimes you have great people who you're interviewing, and so you do it when they |
| 0:34.0 | can do it. |
| 0:34.7 | And then you're like, I don't want to do another one right now. |
| 0:37.7 | And then Sunday comes and you think, oh dear. Yeah, I texted you this morning. It was like, |
| 0:43.3 | kind of like, you know, we have this plan. Are we doing it today? And I was like, actually, we are doing it today. |
| 0:47.7 | It's when because this is for Wednesday. Wednesday. So hello, everyone everyone from the recent past. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to Fade of Mates. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Sarah McLean. |
| 0:57.9 | I read romance novels and I write them. |
| 1:00.1 | And I'm Jennifer ProCup, a romance reader and editor. |
| 1:03.0 | And it's summer. |
| 1:05.8 | You are feeling very free. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, listen. |
| 1:08.7 | So this is like the best thing. |
| 1:10.2 | Untethered. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. So it's ungovernable. Yeah, exactly. And it's funny because, of course, I go through this process at like |
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