Synopsis

The heart is exquisite.

You’ll never hear anyone wax poetic over an organ quite like they do the heart.

When you’re lost in the world? Follow your heart.

When your love for someone is unwavering, unparalleled and unprecedented? You give them your heart.

As a lead pediatric cardiac surgeon, I knew better than anyone that the heart is equally as powerful as it is delicate.

The heart giveth just as easily as it taketh away.

And until the day Kelly Potter darkened my doorway that was all just part of the job.  She rolled in like a slow evening storm, fierce and beautiful, fighting for the life of her unborn child.

It should have been business as usual.

I was a doctor.

Her child the patient.

But Kelly was more.

She was the one who got away.

I wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

It didn’t matter what the rules were.

For once, I was listening to my heart.

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Review

4.5 stars!

Wow. What a beautiful, beautiful story! A heartfelt and emotional almost-second-chance-romance that had me absolutely captivated as we dive into the story of a pregnant mother desperate to save her baby and the only man who can help her – the one who got away.

This book loosely fits in with Amie Knight’s Heart series (See Through Heart and A Steel Heart), with some crossover characters (both the hero and the heroine are friends with characters in previous books), but this book can absolutely stand alone. I read it in a day, unable to put it down, and I freaking loved it!

Kelly Potter is a woman on a mission. She is a musician who has dreamed of stardom and success, and has spent her life chasing dream but never quite getting there. A baby was never on her agenda, and an unexpected pregnancy changes everything, and when she learns that her unborn child has a heart defect, her entire focus is a desperate search for a way to save her.

Hope comes in the form of Dr Anthony Jackson. A gifted pediatric cardiac surgeon, he is one of the best in the business. He is also an ex one-night-stand. Kelly and Anthony shared a strong connection and one incredible night together before it all fell apart the next morning. They haven’t seen each other in years, but when Kelly has nowhere else to turn, she hunts him down and pleads for his help.

“Me and baby girl. We’re a team. And we’re gonna do this thing. With or without you, but I hope it’s with you because I hear you’re good and I need someone who can deliver a miracle.”

Oh, I love Anthony! He’s a kind man with a huge heart, and of course he agrees to help Kelly. But more than just the surgery, he sets her up with somewhere to stay, and pushes his way into her life, determined to support her through her pregnancy and the difficulties to come. And while he plans to do all he can to save her baby’s life, he has more in mind.

Kelly was back. Only she was different and so was I, and for fuck’s sake, I was supposed to save her baby’s life. She was just another patient’s mother, or at least that’s what I told myself. But I knew better; she was the one who got away. The one I’d let get away. It had been a mistake.

OMG, this is such a beautiful romance! I always have a soft spot for a hero that can fall for a pregnant woman and openly accept another man’s baby into his life, and I could not help but fall completely in love with Anthony. The love story is a slow build as he and Kelly reconnect, but they very quickly become friends, and as they become an integral part of each other’s lives, those feelings from all those years ago come roaring back.

I should have known it was going to happen. After all, she’d stolen my heart in just one night years ago. It shouldn’t have been a surprise, her ability to totally obliterate my soul. And she had, a little at a time, day by day, until she owned me.

The chemistry between these two is fantastic and I loved watching them fall for each other. But they have a long road ahead of them, and a lot of pain and questions from the past that they need to deal with in order to get their HEA.

“I love you and because I love her … it wouldn’t be just her heart and your heart on that table, it would be my heart, too.”

Emotions are running high and the feels are intense as they figure it all, but I loved Kelly and Anthony’s journey. I read with a smile on my face, revelling in every moment of them finding their way back to each other and then finding their way forward. It’s beautifully sweet with a nice amount of steam, and the love story had me in a world of swoon.

There is drama, of course, but there is no stupid behaviour by either character, it’s more that we get to see them reacting to their circumstances and working their way through it together, and it was so beautiful to watch. There are fantastic side characters who bring so much to the story. And then there’s a beautiful epilogue which finishes it all off beautifully, providing closure and a blissfully happy ending that left me hugging my kindle in glee.

I loved this one, and am eagerly looking forward to whatever this author has coming next.

4.5 stars!

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Heart Series by Amie Knight

Excerpt

“Jesus. You’re fucking gorgeous, you know that?” He ran a large hand from the spot right in the middle of my shoulder blades past the small of my back before landing on my ass where he squeezed hard enough to make me giggle.

“Less talking, more petting, Doctor,” I said through laughter.

“Not a doctor. Yet.” His voice was cocky, and it made me hot. “Still a ways to go before that happens.”

I could hear the smile in his voice even though I couldn’t see his face. I was lying on my stomach on top of his white plush down comforter naked as the day I was born. And not shy about it at all. He’d just laid his mouth, his tongue, his hands over every inch of this body several times and he’d seemed to enjoy every second of it.

I looked out the small window next to his bed while he was propped up on one hand beside me and using the other to rub every available surface of skin on my body he could find. It was phenomenal. I wanted to purr like a damn cat, but instead I stretched out further along his bed.

“I can’t believe you came home with me tonight,” he husked out.

I couldn’t believe it either. I wasn’t the type of girl who did one-night stands. I didn’t really have boyfriends, either. I was married to the music. Anthony Jackson wasn’t even really my type per se. I liked moody guys with tattoos and piercings. Boys with darker eyes and even darker souls. I was a walking cliché, but I liked the tortured musician types. After all, we were kindred spirits. Me and my hard, banging drums, them with their soft guitar riffs and raspy lyrical voices.

I rolled to my back and gazed up at Anthony. He waggled an eyebrow at me, and I bit my lip to hide my smile. He may not have been my type, but I was positive
there wasn’t a girl out there who’d turn him down. Vivid and inquisitive green eyes stared down at me and God, I wanted him all over again.

And I’d had him plenty that night. We’d met at the club only hours ago. I was visiting my friend Ainsley in Columbia, South Carolina, and we’d run into Anthony and his college friends at a nightclub. Ainsley introduced him as an old friend. He’d come on strong. I’d come on even stronger. Hardly any alcohol in my system and yet I’d let him drag me back to his small apartment, between my legs aching with want. We’d barely made it through the door when he picked me up and placed me on the entry table and pushed his massive body between my thighs. Slick skin, hot hands, wet mouths. And the rest was history. Or maybe not.

\No, Anthony Jackson wasn’t my type. He was everygirl’s type.

Chiseled to perfection face.

Wide smile complete with full pink lips and deep dimples.

Square jaw that somehow managed to be both soft and hard.

Blond hair that was so thick and shiny I wanted to ask him what shampoo he used.

Not a tattoo or piercing marred the bronzed skin of his muscular body.

For fuck’s sake, even the man’s cock was pure perfection. Thick and long and cut just as beautifully as the rest of him.

He was surprised I’d come home with him. I couldn’t believe it, either. I realized in that moment, him over me. Me under him. The sweat still glistening on our bodies.

His ruggedly handsome good looks beaming down at me like the sun on a bright day.

For the first time in my life, I’d had a man. An actual real man. Not boys playing men.

No, Anthony was all fucking masculine beauty and he’d picked me at the bar. I was one lucky girl.

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About Amie Knight

Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn’t reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to ’90s R&B, country, and showtunes.  Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can’t imagine living anywhere other than the South.

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