A Place to Fall In Love: A Small-Town Christian Romance (A Place Called Home Series)
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She came to Whalehead to prove she could stand on her own.
She didn’t expect a sailboat, a cat with opinions, and a quiet man who saw her before she saw herself.
Joy Fletcher has spent her whole life being rescued. Her older sister paid her rent, cosigned her apartment, and caught her every time she fell. Now, with a brand-new nursing degree and a one-year contract at a tiny clinic on the Outer Banks, Joy is finally on her own — in a town she picked specifically because if she fails here, nobody who matters will see.
Whalehead, North Carolina, is not a tourist beach town. It’s a working town on the sound side, where the locals stay after the vacation rentals go dark. And it comes with a few things Joy wasn’t expecting: a landlord named Cecil who brings soup every Tuesday and unsolicited weather forecasts. A restaurant owner named Frankie whose café con leche could wake the dead. A clinic run by a doctor who went to Johns Hopkins and is not impressed by Joy’s B-minus in pharmacology. And a sailing instructor named Nate — quiet, scarred, steady — who lives on a thirty-foot sailboat and teaches Joy to read the wind while she tries not to read too much into the way he says her name.
Nate Alderman used to be the person who jumped out of helicopters to save drowning strangers. A rescue gone wrong took that identity away and left him with a scarred arm, a medical discharge, and a sailboat he bought because he needed to stay near the water even after the water nearly killed him. He’s good at teaching. He’s good at fixing things. He is also, beneath the competence and the quiet, profoundly stuck.
As autumn turns to winter and winter turns to something that feels like home, Joy and Nate discover that love doesn’t require a rescuer and someone to rescue. It just requires two people willing to show up — with both hands, even the ones that don’t work right.
A Place to Fall in Love is the fifth book in the A Place Called Home series. Each book is a complete, standalone love story with its own couple and its own happily ever after. No cliffhangers. Clean Christian romance with faith, humor, and a cat named Gerald.
You don’t have to earn the right to stand on your own. You just have to stand.