Next Time I Fall

"I am always ready for a return trip to Whisper Lake. I love the small town and the friendly people who live there. Barbara Freethy is a master of suspense and romance. She makes her characters come to life on the page." NJ - Goodreads After three years of being a single mom, café owner Chloe Morgan is finally ready to take another chance on love. She's found the perfect man in Joel Bradshaw. He checks all her boxes when it comes to stability, commitment, and accountability. And then Joel's best friend, Decker Hayes, comes to town… Decker is attractive, sexy, and great with her kid, but Decker is a self-avowed wanderer. He doesn't make plans. He doesn't think long-term. He's not someone a woman should count on. Decker is exactly the kind of man Chloe doesn't want. And Chloe is exactly the kind of woman Decker doesn't want. Decker isn't a family man. He isn't even sure what family really means. Chloe is also dating his friend, which makes her off-limits. But as Chloe and Decker are thrown together during a house remodel and the unraveling of an old family mystery, they find themselves falling for the absolutely wrong person. Neither one wants to risk another broken heart, but when love shows up, anything can happen… Don't miss this irresistibly heartwarming and fun contemporary romance by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy! If you love Robyn Carr, Jill Shalvis, or Susan Mallery, you'll love this charming, single mom, small-town love story! Also available in the Whisper Lake Series: Always With Me #1 My Wildest Dream #2 Can't Fight The Moonlight #3 Just One Kiss #4 If We Never Met #5 Tangled Up In You #6 Next Time I Fall #7 What the readers are saying about NEXT TIME I FALL "Chloe and Decker’s story was beautiful! Love, love, love this book! Chloe is a single mom who is strong and loving and willing to help anyone no matter how much she already has on her plate. She tells her son that his daddy’s a hero, but she is also a hero in my eyes. And she deserves a love as amazing as she is. I just couldn’t put this book down." Tammy - Goodreads "Barbara Freethy is a master storyteller who pulls out all the feelings! Chloe and Decker are an enchanting couple with plenty of chemistry, some hesitation about getting involved, secrets and a bit of mystery. There are lots of good friends, some laughs, lots of feel-good moments, and touching love. I loved their story!" Kristen - Goodreads "Whisper Lake is the kind of town you’d love to live in and Barbara Freethy’s characters are people you’d want to call friends." Mary – Goodreads "A wonderful story about finding love after a long road of heartbreak. There’s a bit of a mystery in the rental home Chloe is renovating for her family to sell - and her contractor, Decker discovers he is connected. While the two follow the clues left behind by the previous tenant, Chloe and Decker discover that love can come in ways that they never thought could happen." Karen – Goodreads "I've enjoyed all the Whisper Lake stories and this one was perfection. I couldn't put it down." Peggy - Goodreads

Jase Love sucks. Especially when your own brother and fellow band-mate stole the woman you were in love with. Sitting in a Michigan recording studio with him, singing lyrics he wrote about her, is a special kind of torture. The only thing more frustrating might be the producer’s daughter who radiates sunshine and has more motivational quotes than a greeting card company. Cerys Love rocks. Heavy guitars, a voice with the burn of pure single malt, and lyrics that distil the meaning of love are the greatest things. If only the man singing didn’t have a temperament as foul as the Michigan winter. Jase sitting in her car while yelling at her to get him out of there is a surprise. Why she hits the accelerator and takes him to her father’s cabin on the lake is an even greater mystery. How was she supposed to know they’d end up snowed in for days? Or that when they got out again, their relationship, and her views on love, would be changed irrevocably?

Jeff and Ann had been dating for only a month, but they knew they were in love. Soon they were spending all of their free time together. But things started going wrong. They'd fight, then kiss and make up, only to fight some more. Finally, Ann told Jeff it was over. She didn't love him anymore - besides, she wanted to date another guy. She said she loved me, said Jeff, crushed and bitter. I thought love was supposed to last. How can something so right become so wrong? Jeff and Ann's story is one of many told in 'Next Time I Fall in Love'. In a helpful and readable book for teenagers, Chap Clark gives solid, practical advice on forming and keeping healthy dating relationships. He deals with questions like these: -What is love? -Why would anyone want to date me? -What can hurt a dating relationship? -Sex: How far is too far? -How can I know when it's time to break up? -What can I do to improve my dating relationships? If you're 13 to 25 years old - or if you know anyone that age - and if you're interested in learning more about how to be happy, healthy, and whole in a dating relationship - then this book is for you.

Explores the concepts of friendship and love from a Christian viewpoint and prescribes ways to have more fulfulling dating relationships.

The Healing of the Stenographer was written as not only a way to heal from a divorce, but to bring the power of homeopathy to readers everywhere. Heather Jones is a single parent in a small town. She is trying hard to get her life together when she discovers someone is stalking her. Can she protect her family and help the man she loves? Romance and Inspirational readers alike will enjoy this fun story about a simple small-town girl and her quest for the life she is called to by God.

Here is a small part of my soul I pulled out and shaped like this It is still bleeding, but only a little It won't mess your hands much, And you can wash them after. For years Hugo and Nebula award winning writer Jo Walton has been writing poems and posting them online, first on usenet, then on livejournal, more recently on Patreon. Some have been collected in chapbooks and in Starlings, but most of them have just stayed online. Here at last is a comprehensive collection of her poems from 1996-2020 with table of contents and an index of first lines, and arranged in thematic categories, Love Pain and Death, New Myths For Old Gold, Red As Blood, By Their Spaceships Ye Shall Know Them, Shakespeare, The News, The Turning Year, and Whimsy. Some of the poems are fantastical, others are about everyday life, or politics. If there's one thing that links Walton's very different work it's the quality of "where did that come from?" Here we have a poem about lions becoming extinct after being persecuted by martyrs, one about Henry V's conquest of Constantinople, alongside one about a skydiver friend who died and fell up into the sky. These poems, written over decades, are quirky, unpredictable, and have excellent scansion.

Like Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others. With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined. Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.