Viviana Enchantress of Books: Second Chances A Romance Writers of America® Collection

So happy and excited to have author Brandi Willis Schreiber with us today!

Her story "The Family Tree" is part of the SECOND CHANCES RWA Collection! Brandi is sharing with us why Second Chance Romances are so special!

Think about this for a second: How many of us have gotten everything in life right on the first try? Experienced ever-after with our first loves? Modeled perfect marriages or relationships? Never made a mistake or lived without loss, disappointment, failure, or the heartbreakingly unexpected that waylays the best of our plans and intentions? Not too many. And it’s this failure, either through circumstance or fault, that makes many of us believe we’ll never get it right again. And so we never try.

To me, second chance romances are so special because they are where hope, grace, and gratitude live, where the possibility of a second, REAL love - the one that truly fulfills us for the rest of our lives - abides. Second chance romances provide hope that love will eventually come again and be exactly what we need. They provide grace for us to believe that we are worthy of that love (because we are). And they allow us to experience and express the gratitude that this love brings to others after we’ve learned from the messiness, mistakes, and heartbreak of life.

I love second chance romances because the stories speak to me as a human being like no other story can. I’ve known heartbreak, loss, failure, and extreme mess-ups, and second chance romances remind me that if I allow myself to believe, to be vulnerable, and to try again, anything is possible. Even love. ESPECIALLY love.

Thank you Brandi for hanging out with us today!

Learn more about Brandi and the collection below!

About The Author

Brandi Willis Schreiber has imagined romance stories her entire life in her head but only recently started writing them down. A graduate of Texas Tech University, she has an M.A. in English literature, and uses her love for nature, travel, poetry, and everything beautiful to fuel her fiction, which will always have a happy ending. Her work has appeared in All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World, The Texas Review, Red River Review, and elsewhere.

This is her first published romance short story, however, and for that she’s over the moon. Brandi lives with her husband, rescue dog, and other wild creatures in her beloved West Texas.

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Second Chances
A Romance Writers of America® Collection

Do you believe in second chances?

Romance Writers of America brings together seventeen of today's hottest authors in an anthology of never-before-published tales that reveal true love always deserves a happy ending.

Follow New York Times best-selling authors J. Kenner and Christina Lauren back to reader-favorite worlds.

New York Times bestseller Alyssa Day sprinkles djinn magic in her humorous paranormal romance, while Rachel Hauck brings the enchantment of the holidays in her New Year’s Eve contemporary love story.

And Liliana Hart delivers thrills and adventure in her characters’ search for the impossible.

With characters who find love through tough situations, in an elegant 1800s ballroom, with an old friend who shows up when least expected, at a tender age when cliques and homework get in the way relationships, or after a random encounter in an unlikely setting, Second Chances delivers romance to strike every reader’s fancy.

Plus tales from:
Marilyn Brant
Kerri Carpenter
CiCi Coughlin
Cassandra Dean
Tina Ferraro
Renee Luke
Ariella Moon
Brandi Willis Schreiber
Lizzie Shane
Sharon Sobel
Damon Suede
Tara Wyatt