Second Chance Slow Burn
(2026)(The ninth book in the Second Chance Sparks of Passion series)
A novel by Cassie Wood
He left to save her life.
He came back because living without her was the one thing he couldn''t survive.
Tessa Grant spends her days rebuilding other people’s futures.
She never planned on becoming the target.
But when the courthouse spits her into the cold, Mason Reed is waiting—calm, dangerous, and devastatingly alive.
Seven years after he walked away, he’s suddenly her protection detail…and the only shield between her and someone who knows every fault line in her world.
History hits hard.
Hands that remember.
Kisses that land tentative, furious, holy.
Rules demand distance.
Desire demands truth.
Someone has infiltrated the system.
Client lists leaked.
Cameras smashed.
A text that tears open old wounds: you were wrong.
A van hunt.
Safe-house alarms.
A kidnapping that proves the threat is closer than either imagined.
Mason isn’t just facing bullets—he’s facing the choice he ran from before.
He’ll risk his career, his guilt, and every piece of himself to protect Tessa and fix the past that never stopped haunting them.
This isn’t rescue fantasy.
It’s reckoning.
Messy loyalty.
Brittle forgiveness.
Heat that’s as tender as it is urgent.
Dive into Second Chance Slow Burn.
Genre: Romance
He came back because living without her was the one thing he couldn''t survive.
Tessa Grant spends her days rebuilding other people’s futures.
She never planned on becoming the target.
But when the courthouse spits her into the cold, Mason Reed is waiting—calm, dangerous, and devastatingly alive.
Seven years after he walked away, he’s suddenly her protection detail…and the only shield between her and someone who knows every fault line in her world.
History hits hard.
Hands that remember.
Kisses that land tentative, furious, holy.
Rules demand distance.
Desire demands truth.
Someone has infiltrated the system.
Client lists leaked.
Cameras smashed.
A text that tears open old wounds: you were wrong.
A van hunt.
Safe-house alarms.
A kidnapping that proves the threat is closer than either imagined.
Mason isn’t just facing bullets—he’s facing the choice he ran from before.
He’ll risk his career, his guilt, and every piece of himself to protect Tessa and fix the past that never stopped haunting them.
This isn’t rescue fantasy.
It’s reckoning.
Messy loyalty.
Brittle forgiveness.
Heat that’s as tender as it is urgent.
Dive into Second Chance Slow Burn.
Genre: Romance