Second Chance (Quinn Loftis) Books in Order

The Second Chance banner covers Quinn Loftis’s collaboration with her husband, Bo Loftis, in a story that leaves the supernatural behind and focuses on grief, healing, and unexpected love in the real world. The first book, The Open Road, follows two people whose lives have been shattered in very different ways.

Jason O’Neal thought he had the perfect future mapped out, a happy marriage to his wife Bethany and a life built around their children. A car accident on a two lane highway destroys that dream in an instant. Months later, still drowning in loss, he decides on one last, fragile plan to make sense of what happened. He will fulfill Bethany’s dream of visiting all fifty states, leaving small mementos of his family in each place as he goes.

Samantha Showalter knows a different kind of pain. After three years in an abusive relationship, she ends up weeping in an empty parking lot when her fiancé walks away. By the time readers meet her, she is seven months into rebuilding a life through sheer determination, still shaken but trying to move forward. Her well meaning best friend hatches a scheme, a trip meant to shake Sam loose from the past and remind her what it feels like to be herself again.

Fate, plus a meddling friend or two, brings Jason and Samantha onto the same stretch of highway. The book traces how two strangers, each convinced they are too broken for love, slowly learn to trust again. Roadside diners, long drives, and shared stories become the backdrop for a relationship that is as much about friendship and honesty as it is about romance.

Where Quinn’s paranormal series lean on destiny and magical bonds, The Open Road is about the quieter work of choosing to keep living after trauma. It talks frankly about grief and abuse, but it also leaves space for humor, small joys, and the idea that healing rarely happens in a straight line. If you want to see her writing voice in a setting without werewolves or fae, this series is the place to start.