This is book 2 in a series about a family and it stands alone easily though I did review the first book as well.

This is a estranged husband and wife 2nd chance at romance story. Kyle is a famous screen play writer but years before he married his high school sweetheart, Ophelia who ended up hating Hollywood so she dumped him and ran home to run her families Inn.

Kyle needs to write their love story in a script so he goes home again and wants to crash t the Inn. This was a heart warming and wonderful story with two people who love each other but have to learn to put each other first. I really loved it and cannot wait for Harper's story.

I love a good second chance romance, and this book did not disappoint. Ophelia Bishop and Kyle Kimpton, along with Ophelia’s brother Ethan were the three musketeers when they were in High School. What started as friendship soon became more. When Ophelia and Kyle graduated, they decided to go to LA to make it big in show biz, him a screenwriter, her a singer. They took a side trip on the way to Las Vegas to get married. Since they were so young they didn’t tell their families about their relationship or marriage. After two years, Ophelia left LA and went back home to run the family B&B. Eight years have passed and Kyle has come back home as a successful screenwriter, and is going to stay at the B&B for three months to write his next project. This is the set up for their eventual reunion. I loved all of the characters and the pacing of the plot. I cannot wait for the next installment of this series. I was given an ARC of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.

Ophelia and Kyle have been friends for years until friendship turns to love. Kyle had a rough childhood with an alcoholic father who blamed him for his mother’s death. Kyle always wanted to be a screenwriter and Ophelia wanted to be a singer. After graduation, they run off to California and get married in Vegas. Kyle starts his career and Ophelia tries to start her singing but they try to make her over or they don’t like her looks so she quits. She loves Kyle but he is becoming more distant and won’t listen to her. She leaves and goes back home to help her mother run her Bed and Breakfast Inn.
Now eight years later, Kyle shows up and wants to stay at Ophelia’s inn while working on a new script. Kyle has made it big in Hollywood but wants to get away from action movies and do something different. He believes the story can be written in his hometown with his friends nearby. Ophelia doesn’t want him staying but ends up letting him but he must follow her rules. Kyle wants a second chance with the only woman he has ever loved and plans to do everything to get her back. He has three months to convince her to give them another shot.
When the script is finished and a big time director wants to make it, he promises Ophelia he’ll be back. She takes a chance and believes him but doesn’t want him to sell his soul for the story. Once he realizes her side of why she left, he realized he put her second and won’t make the same mistake again.
I absolutely loved this story. Friends to lovers, then barely friends, and back to lovers. Witty and some sarcasm, steamy love scenes, a drunk father, and two people who try to make it work a second time now that they are older. Of course I haven’t read a bad story by Ms. Probst and this one was fantastic to me.
* Voluntarily read and reviewed this for Netgalley *

I received an advanced copy for an honest review. There were several things I liked about this story. One of the things I liked is how well written the prose was. I liked getting inside of Kyle's mind through his writings. A Brand New Ending is a fun and easy read.

What do you do when the only man you’ve ever loved walks back into your life after 10 years? Receive him with open arms? Kick him to the curb? That’s the decision Olivia Bishop has to make when Kyle Kimpton waltzes back through the front door of her inn, begging to stay for 3 months to finish a screenplay.

10 years ago Olivia and Kyle were 18, madly in love, and ran away to California, he in search of fortune and fame as a writer, she, looking to become a famous singer. But was that the real reason she left with him? Kyle always thought it was. He could never understand how she could walk away from the life they dreamed of – and him - without looking back.

Flash forward 10 years. Kyle’s an in demand screen writer – although what he writes isn’t what he’d always planned it would be – and Olivia is the manager of her family Inn in upstate New york. Neither has really moved on from their fractured relationship.

Kyle’s back in town because he’s got writer’s block and needs to reconnect with his old life and old love to cure it. But that’s not the only reason he’s back in town. He’s harboring a secret that he knows will shatter Olivia once he gives a voice to it. But it’s a secret that has to be told because their pasts, present, and futures depend on it being given a voice.

Can these 2 long lost loves reconnect and forgive the sins each committed towards the other? Or does pain cut too deep for Olivia to ever give Kyle a second chance?

I’m a sucker for a second chance at love trope and this one delivers with a capital D!

This story is filled with a great deal of back story that’s told through Kyle’s writing, and it’s a great hook for the reader. I simply adored this addition to the STAY series from Jennifer Probst and can’t wait for the next one to be released!.

****Thank you to Netgalley and Montlake for a sneak peak at this soon to be released book for an honest opinion. My opinion? You need to read this book!
5 well deserved stars. Wish I could give it more!

Jennifer Probst has been a favorite romance novelist of mine for a long time. She just writes so smooth and her stories flow so well.
However, I felt like this book was missing something. I loved the first book in the series and was really excited to start this one. But "A Brand New Ending" didn't have the same connection to me that book 1- A Start of Something Good did. I will of course read more from Jennifer Probst, but unfortunately this one didn't completely work for me.

This is the second book in this series and i feel like I am on a cycle of books that I am not crazy about.. I was excited to get this book after reading the first book about Ethan and Mia, I loved that one or more I loved them so that was my highlight of this book was hearing about how they were doing or getting glimpses of them in story, hoping we get more from them, maybe even a wedding..Ok to this book, this was Ophelia's book, and what happened between her and him. We find out how they got married and how he changed and left her heartbroken. He comes back claiming to want a second chance and wanting his muse returned. I was proud of her how she dealt with him in the beginning and she put her foot down, but then after she finally agrees to let him stay she crumbled yes she was a little strong but he didn't deserve her. Ryan was a selfish man thru out the whole story, yes he helped her when she was sick, but mostly all his thoughts were on him and what he wanted and what he could get.. I kind of wish he had grown thru out story, but I didn't feel he did. All in all can't wait for Harper's story.

Sigh....Jennifer really knows how to do classic swoony romance. This is light angst, heart fluttering, can't put down reading.

I love how connected to the first book this is. I really enjoyed the first book and this dropping right into the same "world" was a nice surprise. I don't read a lot of 2nd chance romance but the way this one was done made me enjoy it more than I thought I would. These two were so perfect for each other and their chemistry was on fire. I couldn't get enough of it.

Jennifer is amazing and her writing is perfection. This is a perfect example of why she is on my must read list.