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Maybe One Day by Catherine Bybee Series: The D'Angelos #5
Published by Montlake on November 11, 2025
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Mari D’Angelo’s life is complete. Her children are all married. Two grandbabies fill her days, with two more on the way, and her thriving family restaurant is running on autopilot. Not once in the ten years since she’s become a widow has Mari considered another love of her own. Until she sets sail on a singles cruise to placate her recently divorced best friend. Then James comes crashing into Mari’s world.
Charming, witty, and with two daughters of his own, James isn’t looking for love either. But Mari is as irresistible as she is beautiful. As their simmering attraction grows, Mari’s resolve to ignore the spark James has ignited slowly breaks away. She promised her beloved late husband she’d find someone new. Maybe that impossible day has come.
Knowing her protective sons would not approve, Mari chooses to keep the romance a secret. After all, there is no reason for her family to know about James if their relationship doesn’t work out. It’s up to James to prove he can be trusted with the heart of a woman he’s come to cherish. But without her family’s approval, their love doesn’t stand a chance.
I adored this story!!! If you’ve been reading Catherine Bybee’s The D’Angelos series, you’ll have grown to love this family wholeheartedly just like I have. Seeing the siblings all find their forever love and fight hard for their happily ever afters was rewarding and sweet, but this book was so much more. Mari is an adoring Italian mother and grandmother who absolutely lives for her family. Losing the love of her life a decade earlier just made her love the kids that much harder and had her dedicating her life to making sure they were all fulfilled and happy. Now the time has come that attraction has crossed her path, and she honestly doesn’t know what to make of it. This story is heartfelt, heartwarming and eye opening to love after 50 and all the beauty it can entail. I am so happy Bybee gave Mari a story and I enjoyed the warmth of it so much. James is such a great guy! Maybe we’ll see Rosa again in the future??? Let’s hope!
I highly recommend this book as well as the entire series to anyone who loves a loud, buttinsky loving family who loves hard and isn’t shy about voicing their opinion as one after another brings forever into their sights. Well developed characters, wholesome and loving plots and lots of endearing love and passion to sink your teeth into.
Maybe One Day
By Catherine Bybee | November 11, 2025
A Caribbean cruise opens a widow’s heart to a love she never expected in a breathtaking novel about second chances by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee.
Mari D’Angelo’s life is complete. Her children are all married. Two grandbabies fill her days, with two more on the way, and her thriving family restaurant is running on autopilot. Not once in the ten years since she’s become a widow has Mari considered another love of her own. Until she sets sail on a single’s cruise to placate her recently divorced best friend. Then James comes crashing into Mari’s world.
Charming, witty, and with two daughters of his own, James isn’t looking for love either. But Mari is as irresistible as she is beautiful. As their simmering attraction grows, Mari’s resolve to ignore the spark James has ignited slowly breaks away. She promised her beloved late husband she’d find someone new. Maybe that impossible day has come. Knowing her protective sons would not approve, Mari chooses to keep the romance a secret. After all, there is no reason for her family to know about James if their relationship doesn’t work out. It’s up to James to prove he can be trusted with the heart of a woman he’s come to cherish. But without her family’s approval, their love doesn’t stand a chance.
About the Author
Catherine Bybee is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of forty-five novels that have collectively sold more than eleven million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. Raised in Washington State, Bybee moved to Southern California in the hope of becoming a movie star. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school to become a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. She now writes full-time and has penned the Not Quite series, the Weekday Brides series, the Most Likely To series, the D’Angelos series and the First Wives series, among others. For more information, visit www.catherinebybee.com
Maybe One Day
by Catherine Bybee
Montlake | November 11, 2025
351 pages Trade Paperback Original | ISBN 9781662517204
$5.99 Kindle e-Book | ASIN B0F2JBBH6S
$30.09 Digital Audio | ISBN 9781511355841
















































