Skipping Stones and Second Chances

🍀 Skipping Stones and Second Chances 🍀

🖋️ A 1960s Irish Romance by [Author Name]

📍 Setting: Inis Óir, a quiet island off the west coast of Ireland
💔 Genre: Historical Romance / Second Chance Love
🎶 Themes: Memory • Regret • Small-town whispers • Timeless devotion

🌊 Jessie O’Callaghan

At 27, Jessie returns to her childhood home on Inis Óir after a decade away in Dublin. A broken engagement and a fading dream of city life bring her back to the island she once ran from—the sea cliffs, the whispering wind, and the one boy she never quite forgot.

🪨 Barnaby Flynn

The island’s quiet stone mason, Barnaby is a man of few words and deep roots. He’s spent the last ten years carving headstones and hiding a heart that once belonged to Jessie. Now she’s back… and so are all the words he never said.

🌦️ The Past Still Echoes

As children, they played by the tide, skipping stones and dreaming of faraway places. But a youthful betrayal—and a tragedy that shattered Jessie’s family—sent them on different paths.

Now, in a place where everyone remembers and nothing stays secret for long, they’re drawn together again by:

• 💌 A stack of unsent letters hidden in a church vestry

• 🕊️ A village wedding that stirs old emotions

• 🪕 Evenings by the fire, songs half-sung, and silences full of meaning

💫 But second chances don’t come easy...

When Barnaby’s loyalty to the island and Jessie’s shame over the past come to light, the future they’re tempted to build may unravel once more—unless they can forgive, rebuild, and believe that love—like a stone on still water—sometimes circles back.

🍃 Some loves drift apart with the tide. Others come home on the wind.

💌 Will Jessie and Barnaby risk everything for a second chance?

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🔗 For lovers of slow-burn romance, Irish scenery, and stories stitched with soul.