Restore Me

Regular price €16.99
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781464267468
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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From TikTok sensation J.L. Seegars comes the first book in the New Haven series – a masterfully crafted, angsty and steamy second chance romance full of raw emotion and undeniable chemistry.

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Sloane

Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He's arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last twelve years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper-thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all.

But now, things are different.

After one drunken night and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be...nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Dominic
Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing.

What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unravelled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the adorable little way she scrunches her nose up when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've always let her think that because the alternative is...untenable.

But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.

Restore Me is an enemies to lovers romance about forbidden love after loss, and the first book in the New Haven series – a breakout BookTok hit featuring an interconnected sequence of stand-alone stories.

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Second Chance Romance
Enemies to Lovers
Forbidden Romance
Love After Loss
Spicy Romance
High Heat

J.L. Seegars is an indie romance author who takes pride in writing books that make you swoon, cry, and swoon some more. All of her works center around Black women and the lovingly possessive men who are obsessed with them. Their stories, like their love, is tinged with a little heartbreak, but it never stops her from delivering the coveted HEA.