Welcome to the Blog Tour for A Second Chance to Remember by Leslie Gould, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: A Second Chance to Remember
Series: Letters from Lancaster County
Author: Leslie Gould
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Release Date: November 17, 2026
Genre: Contemporary Amish Romance
From bestselling author Leslie Gould comes a warm and lighthearted Amish romance where an unlikely correspondence opens the door to a second chance at love.
After losing her beloved husband, Grace Conley is certain her heart will never heal. The Mennonite mother of three pours herself into raising her children, managing her Ohio farm, tending her late husband’s beehives, and fostering her small honey business. Romance feels like a chapter ended–until a letter arrives that changes everything.
Through her husband’s old beekeepers’ circle letter, Grace connects with Michael Stoll, an Amish widower from Lancaster County she’s never met. His words mirror her own grief, and their phone conversations become the highlight of her week. Michael’s quiet strength and devotion to his three children stir something that Grace thought she’d buried forever. But doubts creep in about their religious differences and lingering grief. Will a leap of faith help Grace and Michael discover that love can come twice in a lifetime?
“Gould expertly builds the relationship between her leads, blending gently comedic moments with emotional depth. . . . This charms.”–Publishers Weekly on The Shop Down the Lane
A sweet second chance romance and perfect book club pick for fans of Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Amy Clipston, Beth Wiseman, and Amish fiction with big-hearted widowed and single parent characters set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Excerpt from A Second Chance to Remember
Standing at the edge of the lavender field, Grace thought of Simon asking her to marry him. It was mid- March now, gray and cold. The perennials were just coming out of their winter dormancy with a hint of growth. Beyond the lavender was the beeyard with a hundred fifty wooden hives. Each had a colony of bees living inside.
That day with Simon had been early July, hot and humid with the lavender in full bloom, a sea of purple that filled the air with a sweet, clean, and calming scent tucked below the rolling green hills that bordered the Sugarcreek Valley. The bees had been thick and heavy like gold and, it seemed, buzzing a chorus of agreement as she said, “Yes.”
She yawned and shifted the baby, born seven months after the accident, to her right hip and turned. Annie and Jodi, who were five and barely three, played on the back deck, something they often did after Annie arrived home from kindergarten. Grace kissed the top of Levi’s head, covered in dark curls like his oldest sister’s. And his father’s. The baby looked up at her and smiled, then waved his chubby arms back and forth. She shifted him higher on her hip and started back to the house, breathing in the earthy loam of the newly tilled field.
All Levi would ever know about his father was what others told him.
She and Simon had bought the farm from her grandparents seven years ago, a few months after they married, although Simon had moved the bees to the property with her grandparents’ permission before he’d even proposed. She didn’t want to sell the land now, but she wasn’t sure she could manage to keep it either. At least she had her cousin Eve, who moved in three weeks after Simon died to help her until she could come up with a plan.
As she reached the deck, Eve came jogging up behind her wearing a down coat over her waitress uniform and a Mennonite Kapp over her blond hair. She waved an envelope. “Your circle letter came.” She held up a second envelope.
“And I have another one for you.”
Grace laughed. “I don’t have time for one circle letter, let alone two.”
“I read through the new one.” Eve stepped onto the deck, and Jodi immediately wrapped her arms around her legs. Eve put the letters into her apron pocket and scooped Jodi into her arms. “It’s good. Rachel Yoder was at the restaurant, and she gave it to me. She’s dropping out.” Rachel, a widow, went to Grace’s Mennonite church, which Eve attended now too. “She’s getting married. She said you could take her place.”
Grace hesitated a moment, afraid of what the answer might be, then asked, “What’s the circle letter about?”
“Grief.”
Grace moved Levi to her other hip.
“Mommy.” Annie held up a drawing. “Look.” She’d drawn five figures. Their family, including Simon.
“That’s lovely,” Grace said. “I really like how you gave all of us hands and feet.”
Annie pointed to the largest figure with a head full of dark curly hair and arms and legs all sticking straight out of his abdomen.
Simon had a smile on his face. Grace had a frown on hers. Jodi didn’t have a mouth at all, and Levi floated alongside Annie like a balloon.
Grief. Grace wouldn’t be any good reading about other people’s grief and writing about her own, not when she was doing her best to avoid it. It had been fifteen months since the accident. Grief had buried her for most of that time. She didn’t want to go back there.
Eve took the letters out of her apron pocket and handed them to Grace, who yawned again. Eve reached for Levi and then balanced both of the younger children in her arms. “Read through the letters. See what you think. I’ll bring you a cup of tea.”
A Second Chance to Remember • Leslie Gould
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group © 2026 used by permission
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About the Author
Leslie Gould is a Christy Award-winning and #1 bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including multiple Amish fiction series. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and an MFA in creative writing. She enjoys church history, research trips, and hiking in the Pacific Northwest. She and her husband live in Portland, Oregon, and have four adult children and two grandchildren. Learn more at LeslieGould.com.
Tour Giveaway
(1) winner will receive a $25 Bookshop.org gift card and a print copy of each book in the series: The Shop Down the Lane, When They Met Again, and A Second Chance to Remember!
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