A Soft Place to Land
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Last published Wed, Aug 20, 2025
She had finally found peace. Then the past knocked.
For years, Elise has built her life on steady ground-married to a gentle, kind-hearted man who sees her in ways she never thought possible. With him, love is calm. It is safe. It is soft. The kind of love she never believed she deserved.
But when Brad-her first love and first heartbreak-returns with a quiet apology and a haunting gaze, Elise finds herself standing at the edge of a life she thought was settled.
Old emotions stir. Memories she buried claw their way back. And as her picture-perfect world begins to crack under the weight of what-if, Elise must face a truth she's long tried to forget:
Not every ghost stays buried.
A Soft Place to Land is an intimate, emotionally raw portrait of love-both the kind that breaks you, and the kind that rebuilds you.
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