She’s heaps of trouble. Can a tough cowboy set her straight?Widowed rancher Heath Wolfe worries he’s making a big mistake by bringing Willow McAllister home to his ranch. A known troublemaker around town, she can’t seem to keep a job or avoid skirmishes with the law, so the town marshal implores Heath to help. While Heath agrees to employ Willow, he certainly won’t allow misbehavior, and he’s … misbehavior, and he’s even prepared to take the willful young lady over his knee for a sound spanking if warranted.
Orphaned and alone for several years, nineteen-year-old Willow is used to taking care of herself. She sleeps wherever she can find a soft surface and roams freely. She doesn’t drink whiskey every night and she only steals when she has to, so it doesn’t seem fair when the marshal insists she give up her freedom to work for Heath. She suspects that the rancher is as humorless as he is handsome.
Heath and Willow are as different as two people can be, but a tentative friendship forms. Old habits die hard, though, and it doesn’t take long for Willow to engage in familiar shenanigans. When problems arise, will Heath regret bringing trouble home, or has Willow finally found a man who can steer her straight?
Publisher’s Note: Bringing Trouble Home is a standalone story in the Lost and Found in Thorndale series. It contains sexual scenes and adult punishment spanking. If that doesn’t appeal to you, please don’t buy this book.
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Heath and Willow are thrown together in a wry twist of frontier justice. Heath was willing and Willow was … willing after a fact: the fact is jail looms if her answer is no. Willow is doing the best she can in a situation that she is unfamiliar with. Heath is doing the best he can keeping his patience under control at her misdeeds.
Of course sometime we have to throw off restraints and they both do – and find a whole new reason to honor the Sheriff’s deal. Fun and satisfying…and a little steam to make them smoother.
Smart and sexy old-west romance!
Heath is a decadent, yummy slice of alpha daddy candy as he takes Willow under his wing and gives the direction-less young woman a place to grow and thrive. Willow isn’t your usual spoiled brat; rather she’s adrift without any family and does what she must to survive. Accepting Heath’s offer to help take care of his motherless children gives her a stable home, but it also forces her to take a hard look at the choices she’s made so far, and decide what kind of woman she ultimately wants to be.
Heath is still grieving his wife’s death, but he recognizes that he can help Willow, and she in turn can help him and his children. The romance between these two develops gradually as they each learn more about the other. It’s a sweet story that held my attention right from the start. Heath’s softening towards Willow and her growing maturity are perfectly synced to allow for a beautiful love story with a very satisfying HEA. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
I recommend this book for mature readers only and for those who don’t mind a few spanking scenes. That being said, I really enjoyed this book. Willow is alone and in a bit of trouble with the local law. She is given three days to find a job and settle down or she will face jail time. Heath is a single father who is losing his housekeeper, so the Marshall approaches him about hiring Willow. Heath and his children decide that they will give her a chance and he talks Willow into trying it for at least a month. Willow is more tomboy than girlie and therefore doesn’t know much about taking care a household, but she does interact well with the kids. Heath informs her that he will have someone come and show her how to cook and that she needs to start acting better or he will discipline her.
The first time Heath spanks her, Willow isn’t sure what to make of her reactions to the act. As the two of them begin to grow closer, Willow starts becoming more of the type of lady that Heath could wed. Read the book to see if these two can make a loving family for themselves and the children.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Amelia Smarts has done it again! This book was an enjoyable fast reading, totally absorbing, wonderfully written historical love story. Willow is heading for trouble, she has no family or means of supporting herself and is headed for some serious jail time, when Heath a neighboor and widower steps in and hires her as his houskeeper and someone to watch over his children while he is out on the range working his ranch. It is amazing what a little kindness can be for a lonely lost woman not only does it help her to understand that she is worthy but deserves the same things as everyone else love, a husband and a family.
Willow, otherwise known as Trouble did whatever she needed to in order to survive – that is until she was caught and made to work for Heath, a father of two children and who is a widower.
He’s not so sure that he is doing the right thing by employing her because of her past history and she also isn’t domestically inclined, but she learns.
In the meantime, they are falling in love and of course there is a certain amount of angst and doubt on her side.
I do like the way Amelia Smarts writes. Her story ideas are good and she has a way with words.
I read an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) of this story and m voluntary and unbiased review is above.