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Wild Card

Wild Card

Contemporary LiteratureContemporary Romance
Pages
464
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Sebastian Rousseau is a grumpy, impossibly capable fire pilot — and, inconveniently, the father of Gwen Dawson’s ex-boyfriend. A chance meeting once pulled them together; a missed connection kept them apart. Now, a year later, fate drops them under the same roof, where the attraction they tried to ignore becomes impossible to outrun. Tangled up in the complications of who he is and who she used to date, the two have every reason to keep their distance and one increasingly undeniable reason not to. The fourth Rose Hill novel leans into a thorny, taboo-tinged forbidden romance and grumpy-sunshine chemistry, set in the same mountain-town world as the rest of the series.

Prose complexity
2/10

Vibe

SpicyEmotionalTenseHeartwarming
Forbidden LoveForced ProximitySecond ChanceGrumpy SunshineFound FamilySlow Burn

Genres

Contemporary Literature Contemporary Romance Romance Small-Town Romance

About the author

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Elsie Silver

A #1 New York Times, Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestselling author, Elsie Silver writes sassy, steamy, small-town contemporary romance. Born and raised in Canada, she lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband, son, and dogs — and the rugged ranch towns of her home province shape the settings of nearly all her books. A lifelong romance reader, she came to writing at her mother's urging to reclaim an identity of her own, drawing on an earlier background in copywriting...

Characters

Sebastian RousseauProtagonist

A grumpy, highly skilled fire pilot who is also the father of Gwen’s ex-boyfriend.

Gwen DawsonProtagonist

A woman drawn to Sebastian despite the complication of having once dated his son.

All characters in Wild Card

Frequently asked questions

  • Who is the couple in Wild Card?

    It follows Sebastian Rousseau, a grumpy fire pilot, and Gwen Dawson — who happens to be his son's ex-girlfriend.

  • What makes the romance in Wild Card forbidden?

    Sebastian is the father of Gwen's ex-boyfriend, which makes their attraction taboo and a central source of the book's tension.

  • Where does Wild Card fall in the Rose Hill series?

    It's the fourth book in the Rose Hill series.

  • What tropes does Wild Card feature?

    Forbidden/taboo romance, age gap, grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, and missed-connection second chance.

  • Is Wild Card steamy?

    Yes — it's an open-door contemporary romance.

  • Do the Rose Hill books need to be read in order?

    Each Rose Hill novel is a standalone romance for a different couple, but the small-town cast overlaps heavily, so starting with Wild Love and reading in order is recommended.

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