This Broken Heart

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.

JOSH

My life ended two years ago. I've done a good job keeping things quiet, untouched, and dedicated to my wife's memory.

Then Erin showed up-loud, soft, impossible to ignore.

She's a betrayal.

To my grief. To my silence.

To the lie I've been living.

I can't let her in. I definitely can't let the town start talking.

But this house doesn't feel so empty with her in it.

And the part of me I thought was dead?

It's waking up.

ERIN

After my world burned down, I needed a fresh start.

What I got was a nanny job on a cattle ranch with a brooding, broken man who clearly wants me gone.

He sees me as a joke in heels. But his kids need me-and I see the man underneath the grief.

The one who still talks to his wife at night.

The one who looks at me like he wishes he didn't.

Falling for him would be a mistake.

But what scares me most?

I already have.

This Broken Heart is a slow-burn, emotionally charged small-town romance about grief, healing, and the messy, beautiful second chances we don't see coming.