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Steph Vizard

A Smart Girls Guide to Second Chances by Steph Vizard

A Smart Girls Guide to Second Chances by Steph Vizard

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Rebecca “Becs” is days away from marrying Matt, her supportive and steady fiancé—until Alex, the man who broke her heart in Oxford years ago, resurfaces as a new client. As wedding plans collapse under disastrous mishaps and family lore about a “marriage curse,” Becs must untangle head from heart.

Published 30 September 2025, A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances is a rom-com that balances mischief and genuine feeling. You’ll feel Becs’s pulse quicken, see her spreadsheets of pros and cons spilling onto the floor, and hear the laughter amid the chaos. Tropes: love triangle, second chance romance, marriage curse.

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  • Format: Paperback 
  • Pages: 336 Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
  • Imprint: HarperCollins AU
  • ISBN: 9781460767061
  • Publication date: 30 September 2025
  • Condition: New

Why this book matters
Vizard delivers a rom-com with substance: wounds from the past, the pressure of “doing life right,” and how love sometimes doesn’t fit tidy plans. The humour and flawed characters make the stakes feel real—this isn’t fluff pretending to be serious, but heart finding its way through mess.

For readers who enjoyed

  • Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare
  • Mhairi McFarlane’s romantic comedies
  • Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game
  • Emily Henry’s character-driven romances

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Blurb

o Do List

1. Replace decapitated groom cake topper

2. Complete twenty-page questionnaire for second-choice celebrant

3. Break family curse

4. Ignore ex-boyfriend / current client

Rebecca, a super-smart consultant, is determined to defy the family marriage curse, which claims no woman marries their first fiance, and prove that Matt is The One.

Although the wedding planning lurches from one disaster to the next and she has to steer a major work project before the big day, Rebecca is sure she can stay on top of things. That is until Alex – the ex who dramatically broke her heart at Oxford University – reappears in the boardroom as her new client. How dare he still be as infuriatingly clever and hot as before? And since when did he start wearing shirts with collars?

As Rebecca's past and present collide, she realises her choices can't be resolved with a trusty pros and cons list. Before she makes it down the aisle, she'll have to finally come to terms with the age-old question: head or heart?

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