Wild Chance: Steamy Second Chance Friends to Lovers Romance

Mari Carr

Jul 2021 · Wilder Irish Book 13 · Mari Carr Books LLC

About this ebook

The friends to lovers romance you've been waiting for. Paddy finally finds his second chance at happiness.

Can he make this moment last a lifetime?

It’s been three years since Padraig lost his wife and since then, he’s been sleepwalking his way through each day, focusing only on work and family, while hanging out with his best friend, Emmy.

The sum equivalent of Emmy’s experience with relationships is contained within the pages of the romance novels she writes while sitting at the end of the bar at Pat’s Pub. That is if she doesn’t count the secret crush she’s been harboring for Padraig since the first day she laid eyes on him.

When Padraig realizes he’s in love with Emmy, they fall into each other’s arms. However, adversity strikes and Padraig–terrified of loving and losing again–pushes Emmy away. It will take the combined romantic efforts of the entire Collins’ family to help him win the heart of his best friend…and his second chance at happily ever after.

Ratings and reviews

Wild Chance by Mari Carr is the long awaited and beautifully written close to the heartwarming and beloved Wilder Irish (and Wild Irish) series about the incredible Collins family. Padraig Collins has loved and lost and determined he’s been there and gotten the t-shirt. He’s satisfied to be pulling drinks and staying behind the bar at his family’s pub. Emmy Martin wanders into Pat’s Pub one afternoon after she’s hit the NYTimes Best Sellers’ list, and after reflection, realizes it was meant to be that she celebrate that milestone where her late parents had met years ago. Wild Chance is the story of two wounded spirits who find the courage and inspiration to reach for happiness, and the loving circle of friends and family who ensure they don’t screw that opportunity up entirely. Paddy and Emmy are meant to be, and it’s a sweet joy to catch glimpses of the entire Collins clan. Pop Pop forever!

I have been both anticipating and dreading this book, since I found out that Paddy was going to get a second chance at his HEA. Talk about mixed feelings! I was happy that Paddy was finally going to get his HEA, but Wild Devotion ripped my heart into tiny pieces. I just wasn't sure I could handle that again. I worried about how the author would handle the touchy situation of a much loved, recently deceased spouse. I worried if Paddy would ever be able to open himself up to the possibility of love again. However, she handled this story beautifully, gluing all of those little tiny pieces back together again! Paddy had his chance at love. It was wonderful, amazing, beautiful, and perfect. It was also fleeting, and over way too soon. Now he is left with memories, of a bittersweet time. Paddy had love, and doesn't think he will ever be open to that again. Emmy has had her share of heartache, spent more than her fair share of time alone. But a chance walk into a family pub led her to a second family, that would fill a hole in her heart. She has watched Paddy, over the years, deal with his pain. But what happens when you have feelings that the other person doesn't feel in return? This book is emotional. There were a few tears, but mostly it was hope that I felt while reading it. Hope for second chances. Hope that love will conquer everything. While this book is it's own story, it is also a continuation of Wild Devotion. Paddy loved, and lost, and then watched the rest of his family find their HEAs, while dispensing his own quiet advice when it was needed. Wild Chance is his ultimate chance for happiness and the future that he deserves. This book was everything I could have imagined for Paddy and Emmy, and so much more! A perfect finish for the Collins Clan!

Get out the tissues, because you will cry sad tears, happy tears, excited tears, and once those emotions kick in, even silly things will make you cry (like wing etiquette!). This book was packed with emotions, as any series that has gone on this long would be, and it comes to an end. But it also has a second chance at love for a character when we knew all about his first love. This doesn’t distract from that in any way at all, it actually incorporates and builds on it. Padraig is the new Pop pop, in case there was ever any doubt, in so many ways, and in such amazing fashions. The love story that grows between Emmy and Padraig was years in the making, and we get to see the moments that made it happen. We get to be with them as they move from friends to lovers. We get to see how their pasts influence their present and how well everything will mesh. We get to see the whole family come together, and moments of our original Wild Irish siblings gathered, even though Killian and Sean simply showed up for the donuts! We get to see all of the second generation with their loves and lives they are living, working hard on making sure there will Collins for generations to come. We get to see Padraig have two great loves, and fulfil the wishes, dreams, and moments they both so dearly wanted for him. We close with Pop pop, doing what he does best, loving his family the way he knows best <3