Under Mara's Hands. Second Chances Club, #3

Claire Bennett has built her life on control. As a high-powered corporate lawyer, she's spent years winning cases, chasing perfection, and ignoring the quiet exhaustion hollowing her out. When a crushing professional loss forces her to confront the emptiness she's been outrunning, Claire does something wildly out of character-she signs up for a pottery class. Mara Kovács has spent the past five years surviving grief.
A gifted ceramic artist and widow, she has carefully shaped a quiet life around memory and solitude. Loving again feels impossible. and maybe even like betrayal. But clay has a way of revealing what hands try to hide. In the warm glow of Mara's studio, Claire begins to unravel the rigid life she built, while Mara finds herself drawn toward a woman whose restless intensity threatens the fragile peace she's fought to maintain.
What begins as cautious curiosity soon deepens into something far more dangerous: trust, longing, and a connection neither of them expected. As grief, desire, and second chances collide, Claire and Mara must decide whether love is something that breaks us-or something that remakes us entirely. Sometimes the most beautiful things are shaped only after everything falls apart.