SECOND CHANCE: A Time-Travel Romance Novel by Richard A. Hicks

Second Chance A Time-Travel Romance Novel At sixty-eight, Rick Hayes is slowly dying. Radiation treatments that saved his life in 1998 have left him with baroreflex failure—his blood pressure swings wildly, threatening to end him at any moment. Alone in 2026, he has resigned himself to a quiet, careful existence. Then, in the middle of a hypertensive crisis, something impossible happens. Rick wakes up in 1957—young, healthy, and strong for the first time in decades. The world around him is slower, warmer, and filled with the kind of simple respect he thought had disappeared. He meets Mary, a gentle, breathtakingly beautiful young woman who works at Doris’s soda shop. From the moment she sees him, something in her heart knows he is the one—but she is a woman of her time, and she will make him earn her properly. As Rick falls deeply in love with Mary and with the simpler life of 1950s America, he must navigate a dangerous truth: every change he makes to the past risks closing the door forever and sending him back to 2026—back to his failing body and the death that awaits him. Read more