Five Tries to Get It Right (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798987851494)

When her best friend hits rock bottom, a lonely widow convinces her to join a worldwide voyage retracing their wild youth in a last-ditch effort to heal heartache through travel, friendship, and second chances.

Lydia is a retired teacher who can't imagine life alone after her husband's death. Kate built a successful business but now faces emptiness after divorce and professional failure.

The longtime friends travel to the exotic locales of their youth: Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and finally Costa Rica, attempting to reignite the passion for life and love that time extinguished.

Wrestling with her inner demons, Kate still plans to end it all. When a surfer from Lydia's past offers her a second chance at love, can she decide what she truly wants for the future before it's too late?