Defend This Heart
Mayelana nale ebook
I suck at relationships. I never know what’s going on in a woman’s head. Things seem as if they’re progressing well, and then poof. She’s breaking up with me when I’m ready to take the next step. It makes me keep my current girlfriend at arm’s length, and guess what? She’s noticed, she’s not happy, and she’s done with me.
Fine. I’ll just stick to caring for animals as a veterinarian at my family’s wildlife rehabilitation center, Hartley’s Nest. Animal emotions are much easier to decipher than human ones anyway.
Avoiding relationships is a great plan until an unexpected delivery of an almost five-year-old girl—who happens to look just like me—shakes things up considerably. Yeah. I’m her dad. Yeah. I had no idea she existed. Yeah. I now have custody of her.
Yeah. I don’t know what I’m doing.
I need help, and I need it fast. Especially when I lose my new daughter in a toy store. Luckily, angels do exist, and preschool teacher Carina Fiore comes to my rescue in too many ways to count. When she agrees to both nanny and teach my daughter, my life gets back on track.
Only the track leads to human emotions. Lots of them. Because Carina is amazing. She hasn’t had the best of luck in relationships either, however, and we make a pact to be totally honest with each other. It’s wonderful to know exactly what’s on her mind and to tell her what I’m thinking . . . and feeling.
When custody of my daughter is in jeopardy, Carina helps me believe in miracles. She also shows me that relationships are worth the risk. Now I’m ready for the next step. Is she?
Defend This Heart is a small-town, contemporary, single-dad, nanny romance between a veterinarian and a preschool teacher.
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Christine DePetrillo can often be found hugging trees, conversing with dragonflies, and walking barefoot through sun-warmed soil. She finds joy in listening to the wind, bathing in moonlight, and breathing in the fragrances of things that bloom. If she had her way, the sky would be the only roof over her head.
Her love of nature seeps into every story she tells. As does her obsession with bearded mountain men who build, often smell like sawdust, and know how to cherish the women they love. Today she writes tales meant to make you laugh, maybe make you sweat, and definitely make you believe in the power of love.
She lives in Vermont with her husband and many woodland creatures who defend her fiercely from all evils.
