From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a small town, single parent romance.
Nine years ago, Weston Madigan saved me. I came to Colorado penniless, heartbroken, and pregnant, searching for a fresh start. Weston gave me a job at his family’s resort, then left the next day and never returned, not even to visit.
Then I stumble in on Weston cooking breakfast shirtless—gloriously, inappropriately shirtless—in the shared kitchen of my duplex in employee housing. Given the shock on both our faces, he wasn’t expecting a roommate either, let alone two.
The growly pilot is only home to start his family’s new heli-skiing operation. I can handle being his temporary roommate, right? Chemistry and attraction aren’t impossible to ignore when you agree on ground rules. Besides, even with those gorgeous, brooding brown eyes, the guy is a walking thundercloud…until my daughter, Sutton, makes him laugh and he smiles at me. Then everything changes. Cue inconvenient heart flip.
This is only temporary.
I can’t fall for Weston.
I. Will. Not. Fall. For. Weston.
But rules go out the window when you’re a little too close.
Callie has worked at Madigan Mountain ski resort as the staff photographer for a decade, ever since Weston Madigan took a chance and hired her as a desperate and pregnant eighteen-year-old. The next day he was gone – and never returned. That is until Callie walks into her duplex in the employee housing section of the family-owned resort and found Weston standing in her kitchen. A mix-up leads to them becoming roommates, along with Callie’s ten-year-old daughter, Sutton. A list of house rules is sure to keep things simple and they are both determined to keep their distance. But the chemistry and attraction between Callie and Weston means those rules go right out the window.
Callie was a single mom who was determined to give Sutton both stability and adventure, and ensure that Sutton never felt she had held Callie back. Weston’s memories of Madigan Mountain were tainted by his mother’s illness and the aftermath of her death. Feeling abandoned by both his father and older brother, Weston was the one left to look after his younger brother, until he finally left himself. Callie and Weston together were a perfect grumpy-sunshine pairing and I loved how they balanced one another. Neither was looking for a relationship, but there was no denying the initial attraction and the slow build of a friendship and then relationship.
One of my favorite aspects was Weston’s relationship with Sutton and the bond they formed. He championed Sutton and her dreams without ever overstepping boundaries or usurping Callie’s role as the parent.
Weston was protective by nature and did not hesitate to sacrifice for those in his life, and that came to include Callie. He was so intent on seeing her fulfill her own dreams, even at the expense of her own happiness. It was hard not to appreciate Weston, because even if he didn’t always get it right, his heart was in the right place.
A Little Too Close is the second book in the Madigan
Mountain companion series and while it can be read as a stand-alone, I
recommend also reading A Little Too Late. (Why would you not?) Yarros
delivered characters that I loved and who were easy to connect with and pull
for their happily ever after. I’m anxious to return to Madigan Mountain yet
again with the final book in this engaging series. ★★★★
Note: I was provided an advance reader copy by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not impact my opinion of the book or the content of this review.
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