Catch a Falling Star

Catch a Falling Star is a 2013 romance by Lynette Sowell, published by Heartsong Presents as a paperback. The imprint published short inspirational romances.

Both leads are in the same condition when the novel begins. Justine Campbell has watched her life collapse over the preceding months, and Billy Tucker is a soldier carrying the loss of two friends and his own injuries from a roadside explosion.

The book's resolution is explicitly religious: the question the publisher poses is whether either of them can let go of the past long enough for God to set their path straight again. Heartsong Presents published at a short length and on a regular schedule, and the format suits a story built on two damaged people arriving at the same small decision. The two of them are given the same problem from different directions, and the book keeps them in each other's company rather than letting either withdraw. Heartsong Presents published short inspirational romances on a regular schedule, and this is a straightforward example of that form: two people who cannot fix their own pasts, a community that watches them, and a resolution that is religious before it is romantic.