Review – Heartless

Synopsis

Being a nanny for the summer wasn’t Willa Grant’s original plan. She was just going to continue working in her brother’s bar & hanging out in the city. But then her best friend Summer calls with an opportunity to spend more time with her & now here she is at Wishing Well Ranch moving in with grumpy Cade Eaton & his darling son Luke for the summer. She expected some fun games & avoiding Cade for a few months. Especially after their awkward first run in where she left him standing with her underwear in a coffee shop. Instead she finds herself unable to stay away from the sexy rancher. He’s got a backwards ball cap & a filthy mouth & Willa finds she really doesn’t want to anywhere but with him. Cade Eaton has been burned too deeply to want to try a relationship again. Especially not with his new nanny. Yet he seems unable to stop himself. Her copper hair, sassy attitude & the way she cares for his son just keep unlocking parts of Cade he thought he had successfully buried. Now it seems he’s going to have to let go of the past so he can have the future & family Cade (& Luke) have always wanted.

Break It Down

Story: – 5 Stars
Who doesn’t love an age gap story? Cade is 38 & Willa is 25. It isn’t played up a lot – just enough. It’s also a fall in love with the nanny trope so we get Luke, the absolutely adorable son of the single dad. Major props to Elsie here because she did an amazing job with the Luke & Willa storyline. Willa is one of my favorite FMC’s of this year. She is amazing. I adored her. Truly though, Daddy Cade is the star of the show. He is perfection. Just the right amount of southern gentleman & dirty talking country boy. Absolute perfection. It was all the best tropes – grumpy/sunshine, age gap, forced proximity, she’s the nanny, small town & close family. A Perfect Storm.

Content: – 5 Stars
The dual POV was flawless. It switched back & forth so well. Sometimes hopping between two characters can feel a bit like a tennis match but Elsie managed to make it happen right when you were ready for it. She also did a fabulous job tying in the characters from the previous book in the series & also setting up the next one. I really liked how this one was edited & how the story kept moving forward. It didn’t drag anything out or speed through anything.

Spice: – 4 Flames
Friends, this man’s mouth. Gawwwwd. The chemistry & tension in this were so damn good. Cade Eaton y’all has easily become Top 5 for me. The way he spoke during their sexy moments was pure gold. Just top notch. Yum. The birthday party interlude! The hot tub! Ugh so so many good moments. & no repeats. Perfection. 10/10

Overall: – 5 Stars
This book hit all the buttons for me. Sexy as hell male lead with a dirty mouth, a sassy, independent female lead & a bonus cute AF kid. To be fair, a man with a backwards baseball cap pretty much always gets me. (I grew up in the south ) but Daddy Cade was just male specimen perfection. && Willa!! Total ride or die for me. She was so freaking funny. This book made me laugh, squirm, pant a bit & fly through the pages. Definitely a 5 star read to me.