Book cover for Heartfall by J.B. McGee featuring ballet shoes, violet roses, and vintage letters.Book cover for Heartfall by J.B. McGee featuring ballet shoes, violet roses, and vintage letters.

Heartfall

Published in 2016

StandAlone

Heartfall is a sweeping story of first love, devastating loss, and discovering that healing doesn't mean forgetting.

About the Book

Claire Ross has never been good enough. Not for the girls in the elite group of dancers in her class and certainly not for the approval of her ballet teacher, Mr. Robins. She definitely doesn’t like what she sees in the mirror. Simply put, she doesn’t love herself, so how could she possibly love someone else?

After twelve years of friendship, Sebastian Reyes’ adoring gaze holds more. They soon find themselves unable to control their feelings for one another.

When tragedy strikes, Claire finds herself in a very unlikely and unfavorable position. Regardless of the weight of the emotion, she must make difficult decisions that impact the rest of her life.

Will Claire see that her true love has been right in front of her? Happily ever after isn’t just for fairy tales. To get hers, all she has to do is trust, open her heart and fall.

Ballerina tying pointe shoes for the romance novel Heartfall by author J.B. McGee.Ballerina tying pointe shoes for the romance novel Heartfall by author J.B. McGee.

Inside These Pages

  • First love and second chances

  • Grief and healing

  • Ballet and music

  • Friendship and found family

  • Single motherhood and sacrifice

  • College life and new beginnings

  • Love after loss

  • Organ donation and unexpected connections

  • Emotional secrets and family revelations

  • Hope, faith, and happily-ever-after

"I don't believe there's a real cupid running around shooting people in the heart with a bow and arrow, but I believe in fate and kismet and soulmates."

Reader Reviews

This book was truly an emotional roller coaster that filled me with so many feels, to the point there were a few times I had to put it down and take a breather as I was just too overcome with emotion, that's just how beautifully written this book is.

—BethyMac, Goodreads

Any book you read by J.B. McGee, you are investing 100% your heart and soul into reading because that is what she gives back to her readers. You know when you feel strange and your heart seems to beat a bit faster? and then breath quickens and you just know something Big is going to happen? This entire book kept me on the edge of my seat.

—Mary Wasowski, Goodreads

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