BARBARA KENNEDY

SECOND CHANCE RANCH - A Novel

EXCERPT: You build your world around someone, and then what happens when 
they disappear? Where do you go—into pieces, into atoms, do you fly into the 
arms of another man? You go shopping; you go to the movies, art galleries, 
to a friend’s home for dinner.  You work odd hours. Do you make love to 
someone else? Someone you hardly know? 
         Consider the hours, the days, spent in this room, imagining myself 
to be the vase on the window ledge, the chair sheltering cautiously under 
the desk, to be the sulfur head of an exploding match, the shattered lead 
ripped out of the pencil broken on the floor. 
         If you squint your eyes, you think you see him again, but he’s 
never there. It’s only his spirit, a memory, that’s what’s there under the 
bed when you kiss someone else. It’s in your coffee cup, in your bath water, 
in your tears. And it will always make you cry.  Unfinished business always 
comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he’ll love you forever isn’t 
finished with you until he’s done.


A PRE-REVIEW:
   It was 3:00 a.m. when I finished reading "SECOND CHANCE RANCH."  What can 
I say? I don't want to use the word enjoyable since the subject matter is 
sad, but I truly feel it is an incredible book.  
   I started reading fairly late in the evening, intending to read only a 
couple of chapters . . . but I couldn't stop until I finished the last page.
The feelings expressed are real and the pictures so vivid.  Much of it could 
have been my story, especially in regard to watching the death of a loved 
one. It could have been the story of many people. I have been through this 
and experienced all of the same emotions. It was easy to relate to the agony 
of the main character as she watched the love of her life slowly leave her. 
The quotes . . . the style of writing . . . the back and forth glimpses all 
present a unique format.  
   I was intrigued by the definition of "life" as presented in the book; it 
has been my own interpretation of the same for a long time.  Because of 
this, I strive to live each day to the fullest.  After finishing the book 
last night, I snuggled a little closer to my husband who was fast asleep.

Bettie Corbin Tucker
Independent Book Reviewer
http://www.bookreviewers.org

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