Reckless Hearts

by Heather Van Fleet

Overview

"Sweet, funny, romantic and oh so very sexy! Prepare to swoon mightily." -SAWYER BENNETT, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Cold Fury Hockey series

COLLIN MONTGOMERY
Between boot camp and two TOD's in Iraq, my buddies Max, Gavin and me have been through some serious hell. So the last thing I ever expected was to find the biggest challenge of my life back home.

My girlfriend died. I couldn't even attend her funeral, let alone tell her goodbye or that I'm sorry I wasn't there like I should've been.

But she left me a gift. The best and scariest one I could've ever asked for. One I didn't think I could handle...until the day I saw her tiny blues looking up at me in that airport. Chloe.

Now here I am, raising my baby girl-with the help of my two best friends. Things couldn't be better. Until she walked into my life.

All I wanted was a nanny. Someone to take care of my girl when I couldn't. What I didn't count on was Addison, the brown-eyed temptress with a body of sin, and everything I didn't need, but suddenly wanted.

Reckless Hearts series
Reckless Hearts (Book 1)
The Right Kind of Reckless (Book 2)
Recklessly Ever After (Book 3)

More praise for Reckless Hearts:
"An emotional, heartfelt, and absolutely beautiful story. I wanted each character to be my best friend. Reckless Hearts was so real, with gorgeous writing that kept me hooked from first page to the last." -Jennifer Blackwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Rule Book

"Beautifully written, sweet and sexy, with the perfect amount of banter. You'll fall in love with these rugged Marines and their Reckless Hearts!" -Kelly Gendron, USA Today bestselling author of the Breaking the Declan Brothers series

"Van Fleet has mastered the alpha hero. With perfectly flawed characters and miles of scorching heat, Reckless Hearts is a must read!" -Kelly Siskind, author of A Fine Mess

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492637172
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	02/07/2017
Series:	Reckless Hearts , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	207,247
File size:	997 KB

About the Author

Contemporary romance author Heather Van Fleet is a stay-at-home-mom turned book boyfriend connoisseur. She's a wife to her high school sweetheart and a mom to three little girls. In her spare time, you can find her with her head buried in her Kindle, guzzling down copious amounts of coffee. Heather was born and raised in Moline, Illinois, where she lives with her wonderful family. Visit www.heathervanfleet.com.

Editorial Reviews

01/09/2017
Even fans of the aggressive, impulsive energy of damaged alpha men, hate-to-love story arcs, and romances centered on the exploits of postmilitary buddies may be turned off by the flip-flop of risk aversion and entitlement around women’s bodies in Van Fleet’s (A Long Time Coming) series starter. Former Marine Collin Montgomery, struggling to raise his late girlfriend’s infant daughter despite the help of his two best friends (both ex-servicemen), is distressed to find that the competent nanny his sister has recommended is Addison Booker, the hot woman who rejected his attentions at a bar. Addison is equally unhappy to learn that her last-ditch job opportunity involves working for the sexy but boundary-ignoring Collin. The three ex-military buddies trade fun, natural banter, but their incompetence when confronted with caring for a baby is unrealistic, and the parallels between Collin’s protective possessiveness of his daughter and his romantic interest in Addison are downright creepy. Awkwardly presented backstories of family heartbreak fail to add character depth while damping the sexual tension. Agent: Stacey Donaghy, Donaghy Literary. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"Swoon-worthy . . . can't wait for the next addition to the series! 4 stars." - RT Book Reviews

"Reckless Hearts is sweet, funny, romantic and oh so very sexy! Prepare to swoon mightily for this alpha Marine rugby player who falls hard for his nanny." - Sawyer Bennett, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Cold Fury Hockey series

"An emotional, heartfelt, and absolutely beautiful story. I wanted each character to be my best friend. Reckless Hearts was so real, with gorgeous writing that kept me hooked from first page to the last." - Jennifer Blackwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Rule Book

"Beautifully written, sweet and sexy, with the perfect amount of banter. You'll fall in love with these rugged marines and their Reckless Hearts!" - Kelly Gendron, USA Today bestselling author of the Breaking the Declan Brothers series

"Van Fleet has mastered the alpha hero. With perfectly flawed characters and miles of scorching heat, Reckless Hearts is a must read!" - Kelly Siskind, author of A Fine Mess

From the Publisher

2017-01-23
An ex-Marine raising his daughter with the help of his two best friends meets the perfect nanny for his daughter, but when their mutual attraction creates tension in their business relationship, he's not sure how to handle it.Collin Montgomery didn't expect to leave the Marine Corps to raise his infant daughter, Chloe, but after his girlfriend dies in an accident, he's left with little choice and is grateful when his two Marine buddies Max and Gavin come with him to help. Their odd work schedules make it hard to have someone on call all the time, especially after Collin's sister, Lia, gets a new job that leaves her unable to fill the gaps. Lia introduces him to Addison, a currently unemployed preschool teacher who'd make a perfect nanny. Unfortunately Addison and Collin have already met at a bar, a meeting that was out of character for both of them and left them with really bad first impressions, so their ability to form a positive working relationship is in question and is hindered further by a smoldering yet unwelcome attraction. But when her desperation for a job matches his desperation for child care, they meet in the middle, learn to respect each other, and then become a couple—but they are continually burdened by their insecurities and personal wounds. Debut author Van Fleet starts with an interesting concept, "Three Marines and a Baby," and creates a set of characters who should be sexy and just flawed enough to make readers root for them but instead makes them immature, annoying, and so incapable of communicating in even the simplest ways that one wonders why they care about each other, much less why the reader should care about them. There's way too much fighting, jealousy, and misunderstandings that could be easily untangled if the characters would simply talk to each other; in other words, too much of the wrong kind of conflict to sustain a novel. A disappointing effort.

Kirkus Reviews