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The Saudade Season: A Later-in-Life Romance
Paperback
Series: The Rose Rescue Protocol, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-two years. Three children. Two suitcases. One ticket to Lisbon.
Sloane Chen's divorce is final. The house is her ex-husband's. The kids are almost grown. Everything she's keeping fits in sixty pounds of luggage. It should feel like loss. It feels like liberation.
In Lisbon, there's Tomás - a man who restores old buildings with the kind of patience that makes Sloane want to stop running for the first time in her life. In his hands, in his city, she's learning something dangerous: that wanting something for herself isn't selfish. It's survival.
But liberation isn't a straight line. There are teenagers who need their mother, a friend group watching from across the ocean, and the persistent ache the Portuguese call saudade - the longing for everything you're leaving behind, tangled up with everything you're reaching for.
The Saudade Season is the third book in The Protocol Series - later-in-life romance about women who discover that the most radical act of midlife isn't holding on. It's letting go.
Perfect for fans of L.B. Dunbar, Jojo Moyes, and Elizabeth Gilbert.
Features: international romance - Lisbon setting - passionate second act - divorce recovery - heroines who choose themselves - third in series
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