Lonesome Heart

This is the Lonesome Heart book from Emmanuelle Snow's collection.It came with a sticker and a hand-written note from the author.
The other items were a page holder and a tote bag.

A book that started with the fictional characters, but as the pages turned, the story wrapped the tendrils of its emotions around me and the characters turned real, facing life situations with their ups and downs.
Love happened when least between Sam and Maddie. An age gap forbidden romance between the nanny and her employer—a single dad with lovable daughters—with contrary personalities, along with an open-angled triangle
I loved Sam right from the first chapter as his love for his daughters was all-encompassing.
Maddie was an old soul who felt the core of life vividly and wanted different adventures to find the one place she belonged to.
And the daughters were the cutest, and as they traipsed through the pages, I felt they sprinkled fairy dust on me, making me long to bask in their innocence.
Though a romance in its barebones, it had many subplots where the characters had to look deep within themselves to get to the truth.
Sometimes life and fate didn't reveal their plans so easily, and the heart too was in a dilemma about what it wanted. Life was like that - messy and complicated sometimes, especially in love.
A slow burn it was, it unfurled the scenes of their life with many steamy scenes (how could a Snow book not have steam?) along with some scary ones where life and love hung by a fragile thread.
The art of storytelling of this author lay in pulling me into different directions without making me feel as if I was being abandoned, alone with my emotions. Ms. Snow could make anyone go through a range of emotions as her characters lay open their hearts.
A deep big sigh and a long stare into space, seeing everything but seeing nothing was what I felt when I finished the book. The only question raised in my mind was - What next? What would this author write about that would squeeze more emotions from my heart?

“Whether we want it or not, we’re tied together by some invisible thread neither of us can escape.”

Emmanuelle Snow has done it again! Legend and Country is an epic rockstar, single dad & the nanny romance. This powerful, heartwarming, slow-burn love story will break your heart on page one and slowly piece it back together. I live on the fence when it comes to age-gap romance; though nine years is not a big difference in the grand scheme, it all depends on the ages and seasons of life of the main characters. Though Maddie and Sam are in vastly different life stages, her life experiences, brilliance, and worldliness have shaped her into a dynamic character with a maturity beyond her twenty-one years. Sam’s recent devastation sent him on a path of robotic routine, his daughters the only joy in his life. Until he meets the effervescent, enchanting Maddie. Her beguiling, endearing, kindhearted nature brings light to his daughters’ lives and melts the icy walls around Sam’s heart. I loved Sam and Maddie’s sizzling chemistry and journey to their hard-fought HEA. Mikaella and Justine are darling kids who instantly steal Maddie’s heart. Emmanuelle threads music through each story of the Carter Hills Band series and I love every lyric! Legend and country is a heart-wrenching, refreshing, and lovely opposites attract, age-gap romance.

Formerly Legend and Country (Carter Hills Band 7), now part 2 of the Lonesome Heart Duet.

I absolutely adore Emmanuelle Snow - all of her books (I’ve read all 7 Carter Hills Band series now), and her as a person. She’s just so incredible! A brilliant author (amazing!), and such a kind and beautiful person.

Legend and Country - WOW! This one has so much depth, so many layers and emotions … so much going on here. It really needs all 580 pages for you to experience everything and heal along with the characters.

Sam, musician extraordinaire (nickname “Legend”, formerly friend of the Carter Hills Band, and who we know from previous books, a tiny bit), left the country music scene when his wife left him and his two very young daughters because being a wife and mom just wasn’t for her, leaving behind three broken people.

Fast forward two years, and Riley (manager), who we know and love from the previous books, tries to bring Sam back from the depths of depression and barely surviving, by getting him to think about getting back into music and touring again, with a nanny he’s heard of. Enter Madison… who changed everything, even though she’s had a hard life, and things continue being extremely difficult with twists that no one could have ever predicted (because every Emmanuelle Snow book has to have extreme circumstances that bring out all the tears, even for this non-emotional reader, and that’s just life)!!

It’s absolutely incredible, heart-wrenching, a tearjerker (get your tissues, chocolate and wine ready!), and you won’t want to put it down so make sure you have a really long block of time free. One of her absolute best, and one of the very best books around, and probably of this whole year (yeah, I know it’s only January)!

I received an advance review copy from the author, and this is my honest feedback.

Emmanuelle has a way of writing characters that are very relatable. I was so immersed in their story. I cried, laughed, got nervous, worried, and sad. All the emotions. Their story was absolutely beautiful. I can honestly say there is not one story or couple I love more than the other because they each have such strong and amazing stories in their own ways.
Emmanuelle writes such strong woman.