Title: Falling Hard
Series: Colorado High Country
Author: Pamela Clare
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 18, 2017
Publisher: Pamela Clare
ASIN: B06W2P7B16
A Gold Star wife alone...
Ellie Meeks promised her pilot husband that if he was killed in combat, she would live her life to the fullest. Three years later, she is still alone, raising the twins he never met. She has no interest in dating or meeting men—until one snowy night when a stranger helps her get her sick kids safely home. That stranger turns out to be a former Army Ranger and a member of the elite Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team. He’s also tall, rugged...and irresistibly sexy.
All it takes is one kiss...
Jesse Moretti came to Colorado to get Iraq out of his head, using the adrenaline of extreme sports and high-risk mountain rescues to keep his mind off the past. But getting involved with Ellie might be the riskiest thing he’s ever done. It’s not just their explosive chemistry. There’s something about Ellie that gets inside him, opening him to feelings he’s tried hard to ignore.
When passion ignites...
Ellie feels alive in Jesse’s arms and happier than she ever thought she’d feel again. But their relationship comes at a price for him, and soon Ellie sees that she must help Jesse fight the demons of his past to protect the love of a lifetime—and save the heart of a hero.
My rating:
Jesse Moretti lives for the adrenaline high his job as a ski patroller and his volunteering for the local search and rescue team give him. It's the only thing keeping him sane and functional, keeping the dark memories from the war at bay. But when he helps his gold star wife and her two toddlers out of a jam, Jesse's life crashes down around him as the more time he spends with Ellie and her children, the darkness edges in along with the light he didn't let himself feel for so long.
Another solid romance with a widow finally deciding to fulfill her promise to her dead husband to live after he's gone and a reluctant hero with a severe case of survival guilt and a heaping dose of PTSD.
Their romance was bittersweet with constant push-and-pull as they changed sides in their "conflict", and though it was once more a little sex-heavy, at least the two characters spent enough time together (chaperoned by Ellie's kids) to keep the story out of the PWP category, broadening their characters and backstories,
I'm not a fan of kids in my novels. They're mostly thrown in as either cock-blockers, plot twist or annoying nuisance. But this time the twins were adorable bundles of cuteness providing a familial backdrop, enticement for the hero to stick around despite his reservations about kids, and stepping stone in the romance story. Not to mention serving as one of the catalysts of Jesse's "self-redemption".
With Jesse seeing himself as still an outsider and Ellie, him and the kids serving as their own little island, the community of Scarlet Springs and the Team featured less prominently in this story than in the previous two, and I must admit I missed the banter and the camaraderie, but overall this book was a worthwhile read.
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