Review: Heartless

Heartless by Elsie Silver
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Cade is the oldest Eaton boy. He had to step up to the plate when his mother died and his father fell apart, raising his siblings, cooking dinner, etc. He takes on responsibility for everything and has a permanent frown on his face. He is a single father to five-year-old Luke and runs the family farm. When the regular nanny declares she's too old to run around after Luke anymore, he knows he needs to find a new live-in nanny, the trouble is everyone who applies seems to be auditioning to become Mrs Cade Eaton the second.

After sitting through several fruitless interviews with Cade, Summer takes it upon herself to appoint her BFF Willa as the new nanny. She might not have any childcare experience but after managing rowdy guys at her brother's bar she can handle a small child.

So this is an older (38) man, younger woman (25) romance. Allegedly Cade got drunk and succumbed to the lures of a small-town seductress who then got pregnant. Being the noble self-sacrificing man he is Cade married her, only for her to leave him when Luke was still very small. Now maybe I skim-read this too quickly, but Cade would have been thirty-two (ish) when he was seduced, so not exactly a naïve young man, also did they only sleep together once?

I enjoyed the romance with this one, grumpy single dad and fun-loving younger woman but I have to say I wasn't as keen on the mildly domineering smexy times and the bit with her panties (bleurgh).

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