A Novel by Thomas Langdon
Given Chances
For twenty-five years, Dick Socha has been in love with his best friend.
Now she’s planning a future with someone else.
Dick and Kimmy have spent nearly their whole lives side by side, each afraid to risk the friendship that means everything to them.
But life is moving forward. And after twenty-five years of saying nothing, Dick may finally have waited too long.
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“The book made me laugh and cry. I really felt the emotion.” — Mary G.
At the Heart of the Story
Twenty-five years of waiting. It may already be too late.
For twenty-five years, Kimmy has been waiting for her best friend to make a move.
For twenty-five years, Dick has been too afraid to make one.
They've been inseparable since childhood. Business partners, confidants, the one constant in each other's lives. Everyone in town figured out long ago what they refuse to say out loud. Dick has stayed silent because losing her as a friend would be worse than never having her at all. Kimmy has stayed silent because she was sure that if he felt the same, he would have said so by now.
Now they're both planning a life with someone else. And the comfortable world they built together is coming apart.
Twenty-five years of waiting. It may already be too late.
Given Chances is a warm, funny, sweet friends-to-lovers romance for readers who love small towns, second chances, later-in-life love, and a slow burn twenty-five years in the making.
Meet the Characters
Welcome to Big Dick’s Outdoors. Pull up a stool.
Dick and Kimmy built more than a business here. They built a gathering place filled with lifelong friends, fishing stories, unsolicited advice, and people who have spent years watching the two of them avoid saying the one thing everyone else already knows.
Reader Reactions
Early readers connected with the characters.
“The book made me laugh and cry. I really felt the emotion.”
Mary G.
“Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down.”
Dean J.
“I felt as though I was there. It brought back memories.”
Kevin J.
“You really captured the characters. I loved it.”
Marlys B.
The Story
Some chances do not wait forever.
Through changing seasons, unexpected heartbreak, and relentless encouragement from friends who know them both too well, Dick and Kimmy have to decide whether protecting the friendship is worth losing the chance at something more.
Given Chances is a warm, funny love story about friendship, timing, fear, missed opportunities, and finding the courage to choose the person who has been there all along.
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