Second Winter by Sophia Soames

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Book Title: Second Winter

Author and Publisher: Sophia Soames

Narrator: Jaxon Jensen

Audio Release Date: March 10, 2025

Tense/POV: first person/ past tense

Genres: Contemporary MM Romance, Sweden

Tropes: Second Chance, ten years later, school reunion 

Themes: Grief, forgiveness, untangling past mistakes

Heat Rating:  4 flames       

Length: 7 hours and 10 minutes

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

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Ten years ago, Ned Anderson made the biggest mistake of his life.

Blurb 

Ten years ago, Ned Anderson made the biggest mistake of his life.

Now he’s been invited to go back to Sweden for his exchange-year high school reunion. It’s a chance to reunite with all the people he once considered friends, and the invite promises a charcuterie board, open bar, all that…crap.

The biggest mistake of his life was leaving, and if he went back…

Does he even want to?

Teddy Backman has become exactly what everyone expected of him. He runs his farm the way his father once did. Gets up in the morning and gets things done. Tries to remember what’s next. Wonders why he feels so violently lonely when he’s surrounded by so many good things. The sun. The sky. The earth. The trees. All the trees.

He’s already deleted that email—the one inviting him to someone’s idea of a joke. There’s no one from back then he’s interested in talking to, let alone drinking or, God forbid, dancing with.

A high school reunion is Teddy’s idea of a nightmare, and he probably shouldn’t let anyone drag him along. He’ll only regret it.

But what’s the point of regret in the grander scale of things? It’s not like Ned Anderson’s going to turn up, is it? The guy who fled straight back to Arizona without even a last longing glance.

Second Winter is the story of something that was always there. A second chance at happiness in the last place you’d expect to find it.

 
Author’s note:

This book deals with grief, death of a loved one and feelings of loneliness. Please read with care if these themes may affect you.

COMING SOON ON AUDIO

Book Title: Little Harbour

Author and Publisher: Sophia Soames

Narrator: Jaxon Jensen

Release Date: February 2026

Tense/POV: third person/present tense

Genres: Contemporary MM Romance, Single dad

Tropes: Forbidden love, friends to lovers, small town romance, forced proximity, 

Themes:  Single Dad, Family, Children, Coming out, bisexual awakening, Male Midwife 

Heat Rating: 4 flames       

Length: 14 hours and 6 minutes

It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.

Very clear content warnings for the very last bonus chapter, with an opt out clause if the reader/listener prefers to end the book there.  Not reading the bonus chapter does not affect the overall enjoyment of the book or storyline.

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One messy single dad. One celebrity midwife. Four feral children. A lifetime of love.

Blurb 

This is a story about life and death, because there was never anyone else for Jens. He had been with Sofie almost all his life, from the day they met at school when they were fifteen, until the day she took her final breath against his chest. She was always everything to him. As he was to her. He never doubted that. Not for a minute.

This is an adventure of hope, where Axel Kleve keeps himself too busy to even stop and think. Work, sleep, eat, repeat. He loves his job as a midwife at Oslo’s University Hospital. He’s good at lecturing and training, and now he has somehow been pushed into running “Ask Axel”, a midwifery blog on PNN, the parenting-site everyone in Norway trusts.

This is a tale of second chances. Jens, he doesn't let himself think of Axel. He doesn't think of Axel at all. And Axel needs to stop longing for that one crush he’s never been able to leave behind. It’s just plain ridiculous. He should have gotten over Jens Sommerfeldt years ago.

A M/M novel full of love and family life, featuring a horde of feral children, a stolen pram, a Midwifery blog and an ill-advised stint on TV. Oh yes, and a man who had lost hope and another who never gave it up.

About the Author

Sophia Soames should be old enough to know better but has barely grown up. She has been known to fangirl over TV shows, has fallen in and out of love with more popstars than she dares to remember, and has a ridiculously high-flying (un-)glamourous real-life job.

Her long-suffering husband just laughs at her antics. Their children are feral. The dogs are too.

She lives in a creaky old house in rural London, although her heart is still in her native Scandinavia.

Discovering that the stories in her head make sense when written down has been part of the most hilarious midlife crisis ever, and she hopes it may long continue.

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About the Narrator

Jaxon Jensen is an internationally recognized and awarded singer and actor, hailing from rural Western Canada. He is a classically trained opera singer, graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Undergraduate Opera Performance Program, Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s Advanced Apprenticeship Program, and has lived and worked around the globe. In 2023 he officially opened his own studio, Jaxon Jensen Studio, where he trains actors and vocalists from around the world, and has discovered a newfound joy in championing the success of his students. He currently lives in Mexico City, where he is surrounded by love, laughter, and the most supportive community he could ever ask for. A special thank you to Eric, without whom none of this could be possible, and to Sophia for creating a world where people like us do get a happy ending. Your words are a gift to us all. Jaxon

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