{"id":40102,"date":"2026-03-14T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=40102"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:25:05","slug":"you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\r\n\r\nIn You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again, Jeanette Bears explores a second-chance romance between Julia Martin, a physical therapist and gym owner who has built a comfortable if unadventurous life in her Midwest hometown, and Raegan Holcolm, who chose military service over their relationship years earlier. When a career-ending injury forces Rae back home, they&#8217;re confronting not only physical rehabilitation but the emotional wreckage of a life path that has collapsed. Julia&#8217;s steady existence\u2014complete with girlfriend and dog\u2014is upended by Rae&#8217;s return and the unresolved feelings that come with it. Bears uses the physical therapy framework as both literal plot mechanism and metaphor for emotional healing, as both women must work through old wounds and the question of whether the choices they made years ago can be undone. The novel examines themes of military identity, small-town stagnation versus stability, and whether &#8216;home&#8217; is a geographic location or the person you&#8217;ve never stopped loving.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n .TFtable<br \/> .TFtable td<br \/> \/*  Define the text for all the 2nd columns  *\/<br \/> .TFtable td:nth-child(2)<br \/><\/style>\r\n<table class=\"TFtable\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>9781636796444<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Subtitle: <\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Genre: <\/strong>Romance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Subject(s): <\/strong>Contemporary; LGBTQ+ Romance; Romance<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>2024-08-13<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Original Publication Date: <\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Bold Strokes Books<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Language: <\/strong>English<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Format: <\/strong>Paperback<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Pages: <\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Rating: <\/strong> <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Notes: <\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>Book_ID: <\/strong>105266<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You Can&#039;t Go Home Again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You Can&#039;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesbian FunWorld Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"325\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"NorthShore Noir Press\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"NorthShore Noir Press\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"NorthShore Noir Press\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/47475bc37f43183328c7cf208b3d817f\"},\"headline\":\"You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Romance\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/\",\"name\":\"You Can't Go Home Again\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00\",\"description\":\"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg\",\"width\":325,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/\",\"name\":\"Lesbian FunWorld Books\",\"description\":\"The Lesbian Literature Bibliography\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Lesbian Fun World Books\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/cropped-LFW-HDLogo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/cropped-LFW-HDLogo.jpg\",\"width\":1157,\"height\":598,\"caption\":\"Lesbian Fun World Books\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/lesbianfunworld.com\\\/books\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/47475bc37f43183328c7cf208b3d817f\",\"name\":\"NorthShore Noir Press\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"NorthShore Noir Press\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"You Can't Go Home Again","description":"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"You Can't Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears","og_description":"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.","og_url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/","og_site_name":"Lesbian FunWorld Books","article_published_time":"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":325,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"NorthShore Noir Press","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"NorthShore Noir Press","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/"},"author":{"name":"NorthShore Noir Press","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#\/schema\/person\/47475bc37f43183328c7cf208b3d817f"},"headline":"You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears","datePublished":"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/"},"wordCount":200,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg","articleSection":["Romance"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/","url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/","name":"You Can't Go Home Again","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg","datePublished":"2026-03-14T10:25:05+00:00","description":"A second-chance romance when an injured veteran returns home to their first love and the small town they left behind.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YouCantGoHomeAgainJean105266_f.jpg","width":325,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/you-cant-go-home-again-by-jeanette-bears\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"You Can&#8217;t Go Home Again by Jeanette Bears"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#website","url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/","name":"Lesbian FunWorld Books","description":"The Lesbian Literature Bibliography","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#organization","name":"Lesbian Fun World Books","url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cropped-LFW-HDLogo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cropped-LFW-HDLogo.jpg","width":1157,"height":598,"caption":"Lesbian Fun World Books"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/#\/schema\/person\/47475bc37f43183328c7cf208b3d817f","name":"NorthShore Noir Press","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5ffb32eedf79f1cf201ae2e46198120d552a5a48e907f4d5c5e8d6087a83bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"NorthShore Noir Press"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}