Part of Tender Hearts
First published 2018
She's back on the porch. Again. The narrator watches her standing there and knows exactly what comes next, because they have run this play before. He lets her in. He gives her everything. She takes it and walks back to the other man. He is the one she returns to. He is not the one she stays with. This is the engine of Defenseless Hearts: a man who cannot turn away the woman he loves, even knowing the outcome. He sees the pattern clearly. He names it. He chooses to open the door anyway, every single time, because wanting her has become something he cannot switch off. More of her presence, more of what they could be together, it is never enough to fill the space she leaves behind when she goes. Meagan Brandy builds the tension around a love triangle where the real conflict is internal. The other man is almost beside the point. The question the book keeps pressing is simpler and harder: how long can a person keep handing over their heart to someone who already has somewhere else to be? The emotional core lives in that gap between knowing better and doing it anyway.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotionally-intense, intimate, introspective, melancholic, raw, tension-filled
Tropes: emotional-turmoil, love-triangle, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
342 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: emotional-abuse, toxic-relationship