Next Time I Fall

Contents Cover Full Page Image Contents Also by Barbara Freethy NEXT TIME I FALL BLURB Copyright Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Epilogue What to read next… Access MEMBERS ONLY Page! About the Author Cover Contents Also by Barbara Freethy Copyright Beginning Access MEMBERS ONLY Page! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Contents
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Also by Barbara Freethy
 
 
 
 
 Chapter 1
 
 
 Chapter 2
 
 
 Chapter 3
 
 
 Chapter 4
 
 
 Chapter 5
 
 
 Chapter 6
 
 
 Chapter 7
 
 
 Chapter 8
 
 
 Chapter 9
 
 
 Chapter 10
 
 
 Chapter 11
 
 
 Chapter 12
 
 
 Chapter 13
 
 
 Chapter 14
 
 
 Chapter 15
 
 
 Chapter 16
 
 
 Chapter 17
 
 
 Chapter 18
 
 
 Chapter 19
 
 
 Chapter 20
 
 
 Chapter 21
 
 
 Chapter 22
 
 
 Chapter 23
 
 
 Chapter 24
 
 
 Chapter 25
 
 
 Chapter 26
 
 
 Chapter 27
 
 
 Chapter 28
 
 
 Epilogue
 
 
 
 
 What to read next…
 
 
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 About the Author
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Also by Barbara Freethy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 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)
 
 
 
 Don’t miss the Callaway Series that inspired Whisper Lake!
 
 
 
 The Callaways
 On A Night Like This (#1)
 So This Is Love (#2)
 Falling For A Stranger (#3)
 Between Now and Forever (#4)
 Nobody But You (A Callaway Wedding Novella)
 All A Heart Needs (#5)
 That Summer Night (#6)
 When Shadows Fall (#7)
 Somewhere Only We Know (#8)
 
 
 
 
 The Callaway Cousins
 If I Didn’t Know Better (#1)
 Tender Is The Night (#2)
 Take Me Home (A Callaway Novella)
 Closer To You (#3)
 Once You're Mine (#4)
 Can't Let Go (#5)
 Secrets We Keep (#6)
 
 
 
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 NEXT TIME I FALL BLURB
 
 
 
 
 
 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 is not 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… 
 
 I hope you enjoy this single mom, feel-good, small-town romance!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 NEXT TIME I FALL
 
 
 
 
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 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter One
 
 
 
 
 
 "Did you know your tenant was a hoarder?" Hannah McKenna asked.
 Chloe Morgan stared in shocked silence at the living room of her family's rental house. The room was filled with so many towering piles of stuff that she could barely see the furniture. "I had no idea. Eleanor never let me in the house. On the few times I stopped by, she met me on the porch with homemade cookies. She always said everything was fine."
 "Are we having cookies?" her son Leo asked, tugging on her hand.
 She shook her head at the hopeful look in his four-year-old eyes. "Not now."
 "Can we have cookies later?"
 "We'll see how good you are," she said vaguely, as he let go of her hand to look at a train that appeared to wind its way along a track from the living room to the dining room. That made little sense. Eleanor Johnson had been in her eighties when she'd passed away two weeks ago, and she hadn't had any children living at the house. Nor had she had any family, so why did she have a train? That was only one of a thousand questions running through her head.
 "Maybe you should tell your parents that this is their problem."
 "It's not their problem; it's mine," she said. "My parents want to sell the house and, in return for my help, they'll split the