If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes

and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you won’t want to miss this newest book

On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated

brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person she’d

ever known. They partied their way through their twenties, slowly descending

into a bleak world of binge-drinking and broken promises, inebriated for most

of a decade. Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared…and pregnant.

Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben’s baby,

Cass has to find a way to stop drinking and build a stable life for herself and

her child. But with no money, skills, or sober friends or family, the task

seems insurmountable. At wit’s end, Cass turns to the only person with the

means to help her: Ben’s brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a

man with a temper and problems of his own.

The two make a deal that neither one of them is sure they can

live up to. As Cass struggles to take control of her life and to ask for help

when she needs it, Scott begins to realize there’s a life for him beyond the

baseball diamond.

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turns heartbreaking and humorous, with its message that change is possible, that forgiveness can be freely given, and that life, though

imperfect, is worth embracing, Catch Us When We Fall is a story of human connectedness and hope.