THIS WILD HEART by Karla Sorensen
Release Date: February 7
Blurb:
Who forgets marrying a football player? Me, apparently. Turns out countless shots and a bad breakup lead to questionable decision making. But waking up in Vegas with a ring on my finger beside a hot, naked man is hard to ignore. I married Parker Wilder. Thanks to our quickie nuptials, I’ll get my inheritance, and he’ll get his family and their well-intentioned meddling off his back.
Forgetting the wedding was the easy part. Being married to him is a whole different story. Parker is too … everything. Chiseled by the gods good-looking. A heartbreaking kind of broody. The kind of man you know will wreck you for all others. Good thing this is all pretend. And oh, how we pretend. We pretend ourselves right into me ripping the clothes off his body.
It’s all fun and fake marriage until the day he gets a knock on the door with the surprise of a lifetime. Until the bomb goes off and we’re left to pick up the pieces. Until the pretending stops and we’re left with only one question: was any of it real?
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Welp, I was not expecting to cry the way I did with This Wild Heart! Karla Sorensen really went all out wrapping up the Wilder Family saga with Parker’s book. Pairing him with Anya (Aiden and Isabel’s daughter from Forbidden/The Ward series) was another awesome connector between the Wilders and the Washington Wolves world, and as a longtime KS reader, I loved the cameos.
I’ve been reading the Wilders from the beginning, so I’ve seen this family go through Tim’s illness and death. It affected them all in different ways, but I had no idea that Parker was carrying around the level of guilt that he was! He is so emotionally stunted, and his closed his heart off to any kind of feeling. Watching him fall in love with Anya and realize that he doesn’t have to live in a self-imposed prison of grief was wonderful. I loved how these two characters connected over the loss of their parents (Anya’s dad was a widow when we met him in Forbidden).
Although Anya and Parker’s relationship starts out as a marriage of convenience, it is so full of passion and is a delicious slow burn as these two realize just how perfect they are for one another. The addition of Leo to this story was unexpected but added another wonderful layer to Anya and Parker’s relationship as they navigated the situation thrust upon them.
While I’m sad to say goodbye to the Wilders and all of the chaos that goes along with the family, I think that KS gave us an awesome farewell.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Karla Sorensen:
Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 10 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring Dramione fan fiction or avoiding the laundry, you can find her binding books, and watching football (British & American) or HGTV. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.
Connect with Karla Sorensen:
https://www.instagram.com/karla_sorensen/
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