A Soft Place to Fall is an unabashedly romantic, remarkably realistic, contemporary story of new beginnings, true love, and dreams come true. Annie Galloway had lived in Shelter Rock Cove, Maine, all her life, and that's where she'd settled after she married her childhood sweetheart. Though she'd been widowed young, she owned her own home (though she'd recently moved herself and her two cats into a tiny shorefront cottage) and was a respected, dedicated local business owner who worked hard to make her flower shop a success. In contrast, Sam Butler was a stranger, new in town, with a battered old car, an ill-behaved dog, a lease on an old house, and no sign of any job worth mentioning. The locals might find it hard to believe, but Annie and Sam had more in common than it seemed. They'd each been orphaned young and abandoned personal dreams for the sake of others. They'd both faced unexpected trials in lives most people around them envied. And they had both earned the friendship of Warren Bancroft, a wealthy local entrepreneur, who had decided it was time to bring two of his favorite people together. That's why Warren had brought down the price of Annie's cottage to a level she could afford, despite the crushing debts her husband had amassed before he died. And that's why he'd offered Sam the only other house on Annie's new street, after learning the ex–Wall Street wizard needed a safe haven while waiting to testify in an embezzlement case of staggering proportions. Warren figured that Annie and Sam deserved whatever happiness they could find -- but even he never anticipated the miracles they would share amid the heights of passion and drama that their newfound love inspired.

Genre: Romance