Review

fresh startAnnie Galloway finds herself starting life over in the aftermath of her husband's death in Barbara Bretton's A Soft Place to Fall. For Annie, that means everything changes. She gives up the home of her dreams and the dreams her husband's family had for the couple for a rundown Maine cottage. As Annie copes with a changing relationship with her late husband's family, she also looks forward to the promise of building a new life with Sam Butler. Sam brings dark secrets from his own past to Shelter Rock Cove. A Wall Street investment banker, he must reconcile his own complicity in questionable banking practices as he risks his life to set things right. Barbara Bretton's story rings with a poignant reality that is as heartwarming and bittersweet as warm apple cider on a cold, rainy night.

Sandy Huseby writes and reviews from her homes in Fargo, North Dakota, and lakeside in northern Minnesota.