Catch Us When We Fall: From Addiction to Redemption, Finding Family, and a Second Chance at Motherhood

ISBN: 0063079968

Author: Fay, Juliette

Condition: New

If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyesand the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you wont want to miss this newest bookabout second chances, redemption, and the power of hope from USA Todaybestselling author of Shelter Me, Juliette Fay.On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin datedbrilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person shedever known. They partied their way through their twenties, slowly descendinginto a bleak world of binge-drinking and broken promises, inebriated for mostof a decade. Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scaredand pregnant.Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Bens baby,Cass has to find a way to stop drinking and build a stable life for herself andher child. But with no money, skills, or sober friends or family, the taskseems insurmountable. At wits end, Cass turns to the only person with themeans to help her: Bens brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, aman with a temper and problems of his own.The two make a deal that neither one of them is sure they canlive up to. As Cass struggles to take control of her life and to ask for helpwhen she needs it, Scott begins to realize theres a life for him beyond thebaseball diamond.Byturns heartbreaking and humorous, with its message that change is possible, that forgiveness can be freely given, and that life, thoughimperfect, is worth embracing, Catch Us When We Fall is a story of human connectedness and hope.