Second Option

Thorndale Hearts #2

by D.L. Croisette

Grant Voss has spent six months not saying what he means. Poppy Hayes has spent twenty-one years making sure no one sees past her sunny persona. When a very kiss throws them together, the pretending comes easy. It's the truth that's going to be the problem.

The second book in the Thorndale Hearts series is a fake-dating, second chance, it's always been you, college sports romance about the cost of being easy to love and the courage it takes to be fully known.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication November 18, 2026

About the author

DL Croisette writes award-winning contemporary slow burn romances where tenderness meets banter, characters earn their second chances, and cinnamon-roll men fall first. Reviewers call her books “heartfelt, steamy, and swoony romantic.” Collector of international friends, avid traveller and always up for a new experience, she snaps photos to remember each escapade, and peppers the best into her stories. She’s probably at an outdoor café right now, dreaming up a bold new heroine to stir up trouble.

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