A Rancher’s Heart
Heart Falls, book 1
by Vivian
Arend
Released: November
14, 2017
About
the Book:
Caleb Stone is wearing too many hats
and it’s making him crankier than usual. He’s a cowboy, a father, and the head
of his large family—and has been since tragedy claimed his parents over ten
years ago. The ranch is struggling, but it’s the title of single dad that’s got him tangled up in knots. He
needs a full-time, live-in nanny at the Silver Stone homestead in Heart Falls,
Alberta, to help with his two little girls, but the woman about to arrive on
his doorstep? Tantalizing, tempting, and trouble with capital T’s.
Tamara Coleman doesn’t regret the
choices that led to losing her job, but she definitely needs a fresh start.
When a friend recommends her for a nanny position in a new town, she swears
this time it’ll be different. No more acting on impulse—except sexy, gruff
Caleb is exactly the kind of man who pushes all her
buttons. And what’s more, it’s so much fun to push his in return. Sparks fly
between Tamara and her gorgeous boss, but she can’t risk her position, and he
doesn’t dare risk his heart.
With
two people fighting their true natures, something’s going to give. Luckily,
there’s more than one way to capture a rancher’s heart.
The
Review:
When it comes
to Vivian Arend books I’ve come to expect a couple things: main characters who
may not realize their own strength but have it spades, interesting characters
with depth, personality and heart, and heat. A Rancher’s Heart
delivers all that and more. As the first book in a new series we’re being
introduced to a whole host of new things – a new “main” setting, a new central
cast of characters, and new relative history. Put together that can be a good
thing or a bad one. In my opinion, A Rancher’s Heart is all good.
In this
opening book of the Heart Falls
series those of us who’ve read the books of Arend’s Six Pack Ranch series are lucky in that not every little thing is
unknown to us – you don’t have to read those books to understand the story told
in A
Rancher’s Heart but a little bit of back story never hurts. (Right?) Tamara
Coleman, our heroine, is a woman with a heart of gold and a spine of steel;
when she thinks something needs to be done or said she does it, damn the
consequences. Fortunately for her that steel spine sees her through, even while
that compassionate heart may cringe at the results of her actions. After all,
if she can stand up to all the craziness of being part of the Coleman brood,
she can handle just about anything. Even helping raise two little girls who’ve
been hurt in the past.
Caleb Stone
is a man who has had little choice in his life but to stand up and bear
responsibility. He always acts in what he believes is best for his family’s
ranch, his younger siblings, and his two seriously precious daughters. The
course of his life, ever since his parents died years earlier, has left very
little room for kicking back, for taking it easy, for going with the flow. Or
for doing the things that would simply make him happy from day-to-day. Through
the years he’s taken kicks – to his pride and his heart – but he musters on the
best he can, though without much hope for anything better for himself.
So what
happens when two strong, take-charge personalities collide?
From the
first moment, there are sparks. Tamara and Caleb are determined to keep things
professional though and do their best to ignore the building heat between them.
They do a pretty good job of it for a while too by keeping their focus on Caleb’s
young daughters.
But, really,
how long can they hold out when every day the want grows stronger until it
becomes a need? What happens when suddenly your enjoyment of a normal day comes
to depend on the presence of another? And how will two people who can normally
handle anything life throws at them, handle falling for each other?
I really
enjoyed reading Caleb and Tamara’s story. It had moments that made me laugh out
loud, sections that made me cry, and pages that held me entranced by the
possibilities. Tamara fits in to the Stone family perfectly and is the breath
of new life desperately needed, not just by Caleb, but all the Stone siblings. Caleb
is the perfect stable foil for Tamara’s frequently spontaneous nature. Together
they’re an ideal combination to make for a long, happy, interesting life full
of love, laughter, and plenty of heat.
😍 💋 😍 💋 😍 💋 😍 💋 😍
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