High school teacher Brindle Montgomery and rancher Trace Jericho have been inseparable friends for as long as either can remember, and on-again, off-again lovers for years. As rebellious as they are stubborn, they have always been perfectly content with their no-strings arrangement, each insisting they want nothing more. Then Brindle comes home from a trip to Paris with a baby bump, and everything they thought they had quietly settled comes undone. The news sends Trace's wild, reckless heart into a tailspin, while Brindle is left second-guessing whether she has just made the biggest mistake of her life. Caught between the easy heat they have always shared and the daunting weight of what comes next, the two must reckon with feelings they have spent years refusing to name. Set in the horse country of Oak Falls among the sprawling, meddling Montgomery and Braden families, this is a story about two headstrong people who know each other completely yet have never dared risk more than a fling. With a surprise pregnancy forcing their hand, Brindle and Trace have to decide whether friendship and desire can grow into the kind of love that lasts.
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa Foster has written more than 100 novels and sold millions of copies worldwide. She is best known for Love in Bloom, a sprawling contemporary romance universe built from interconnected sub-series (the Snow Sisters, the Bradens, the Remingtons, the Ryders, the Seaside and Bayside Summers casts, and the biker-family Whiskeys and Wickeds among them) in which characters reappear across one another's stories. Her romances...
Can I read Wild, Crazy Hearts as a standalone, or do I need to read the series in order?
You can read Wild, Crazy Hearts on its own. It is book 4 of The Bradens & Montgomerys: Pleasant Hill - Oak Falls, one of the interconnected sub-series in Melissa Foster's Love in Bloom collection, and every Love in Bloom book is written as a standalone with its own complete romance and a guaranteed happily ever after. Reading the series in order simply lets you follow the extended family as familiar characters reappear across the books.
Who are the main characters in Wild, Crazy Hearts?
Wild, Crazy Hearts follows Brindle Montgomery and Trace Jericho. Their romance is the heart of the book, set among the big, close-knit families Melissa Foster's readers return for.
How steamy is Wild, Crazy Hearts?
Wild, Crazy Hearts is an open-door contemporary romance, so it pairs its emotional story with on-page love scenes. Readers who prefer sweeter, closed-door versions can look for Melissa Foster's clean-language editions published under her pen name, Addison Cole.