Dear Reader,

      I have a feeling that when grace and beauty were handed out I was either trying to sneak another serving of humour or I was off somewhere with my head in the clouds. Probably daydreaming about being swept off my feet by a hot hero… I’ve been swept off my feet, all right—by a dozen huge figurative and literal waves that I haven’t seen coming simply because I’m a dreamer.

      My heroine, Holly, is a dreamer too. She’s grown up an awkward ugly duckling in a family of beautiful, graceful swans and has had to learn to control her inner klutz. It hasn’t been easy, and she tends to regress when she’s flustered. And, boy, does Gabriel Alexander fluster her. So much so that it’s pretty much a disaster waiting to happen—because Holly’s about to go down for the count.

      Gabriel’s wrestling with his own demons. He recently lost the only family that mattered, and has just left a lucrative cosmetic surgery career in Hollywood to join the staff of a Manhattan teaching hospital. With his family’s dysfunctional history, he’s convinced that committed relationships aren’t his thing. In fact families aren’t his thing. He’s better off alone.

      But then the adorably klutzy Holly Buchanan literally falls at his feet, and soon it’s Gabe who finds himself falling—hard and fast. She sends him reeling, tilting his world on its axis. But maybe he’s always been off-centre and Holly has finally righted his world.

      Since I’m a little klutzy myself, I must confess to having a soft spot for Holly. I hope you do too.

      Happy reading!

       Lucy