This Broken Heart

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A widowed single dad. A city girl with nothing to lose. One house two kids and a rule neither of them is supposed to break.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>JOSH</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My life ended two years ago. I've done a good job keeping things quiet untouched and dedicated to my wife's memory.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then Erin showed up-loud soft impossible to ignore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's a betrayal.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To my grief. To my silence.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To the lie I've been living.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I can't let her in. I definitely can't let the town start talking.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But this house doesn't feel so empty with her in it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And the part of me I thought was dead?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's waking up.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ERIN</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After my world burned down I needed a fresh start.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What I got was a nanny job on a cattle ranch with a brooding broken man who clearly wants me gone.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He sees me as a joke in heels. But his kids need me-and I see the man underneath the grief.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The one who still talks to his wife at night.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The one who looks at me like he wishes he didn't.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Falling for him would be a mistake.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But what scares me most?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I already have.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Broken Heart</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a slow-burn emotionally charged small-town romance about grief healing and the messy beautiful second chances we don't see coming.</span></p><p></p>