The Sound of Falling

It wasn't easy. I wasn't easy. Life wasn't easy.

Bella Brown has spent most of her life alone. After losing her parents at a young age, she has learned to rely on no one but herself. The orphanage is not a home, but it's all she's ever known. She doesn't dream of a different life-because dreams only lead to disappointment. But on quiet nights, when the wind howls through the trees, she can't help but wonder... How would things have been? How could they have been? Who would she have become if life hadn't broken her first?

Then Blake Turner arrives. He's different-too confident, too warm, too persistent. Bella doesn't want to let him in, but he sees through her walls, hears the silent melodies of her pain. Slowly, against all odds, she begins to trust him. Maybe, just maybe, she isn't as alone as she thought.

But just as she starts to believe in something more, the past resurfaces, threatening to pull her under once again. Because life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. And some wounds never truly heal...