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Life may not offer do-overs, but it might offer second chances.

Dr. Claire Barrett has it all. At least, it seems that way to everyone but Claire. A successful doctor with two almost grown and successful children, an international reputation as one of the world's finest pediatric surgeons, Claire at age fifty is as beautiful, stylish and driven as ever. She prides herself in making the best decisions to have gotten her where she is today. She did it all herself and from her home base in St. John's, Newfoundland. But there is one decision that rankles. She should never have allowed Peter O'Brien to get away. She should never have agreed to the divorce. Was it her only mistake? Now she has a plan to fix that. She will win him back.

Eliza Houlihan Cohen, a New Yorker by way of Canada's east coast, is a successful cookbook author. After years of putting up with her philandering husband Jake and his whining mother, she has finally broken free. And now that she's met Dr. Peter O'Brien, she wonders if she might take another chance on love.

Eliza hates Miami, but when Peter asks her to take a cruise with him, ending in Miami, and she asks her daughter Izzy to meet her there for a holiday, Eliza decides she can cope. By the time her cruise through the Amazon reaches Miami, Eliza will wish she had never laid eyes on Peter's ex-wife, Claire. The question is, though, will she feel the same about Peter?

Vanity, conceit and a single-minded pursuit of career goals, though, will only take you so far in this life. There comes a time when you must face the fact