*****5 Stars*****
I loved this book; from the first chapter and the first glimpse I got of Harley and Wyatt’s feelings for each other I was a goner. This is a story of first love between two teenagers that has grown over time and is a lovely reminder of all the emotions, worries and angst that can cause. It is very much a Romeo and Juliet kind of romance with the interfering family ideals that get between these young lovers.
Harley is a young girl caught between two worlds; her family are uber wealthy living in New York where her mother is in her element and hell bent on styling Harley for her role as a socialite. However, Harley is more at home, and herself, when spending her summers with her horse at the home of the Doran family, Willowhaven Farms, where Wyatt’s mother Camille trains Harley and her horse in exchange for her summer boarding. We meet Harley in her third summer at Willowhaven which she feels may well be her last year at the farm and as such she feels she is ready to take the last step with Wyatt.
Wyatt Doran is a dish, seriously Jamie had me with Wyatt from the off even if he was just a 15 year old; I loved him from the offset. He is a brilliant and gifted horseman but has an ambition to be a fire-fighter. He is hopelessly in love with Harley and knows that their relationship could cost his family dearly so they keep their love secret from everyone around them. He gets Harley in a way no one else does and has a deeper understanding of her fears for her future, her elderly father’s health and her need to conform to her mother’s demands in order to retain her freedom at the farm and protect the Doran family yet his main desire is for Harley to just be able to be herself.
Sadly their affair is exposed in the most unfair of timing and Harley’s nasty mother tears them apart from each other with threats to ruin the Doran family. Even though while reading you sensed this coming, and it is a dread all the time while reading, it really broke my heart for the two of them to be so unfairly parted. The events that followed their parting especially for Wyatt were heartbreaking too. There are the inevitable bad timings and misconceptions that push them further apart for too many years until fate steps in.
As the series title suggests Wyatt achieves his ambition to be a fire-fighter and when Station 32 respond to a road accident Harley is brought back into his life. But has too much time passed for them and has Harley moved on with the kind of suitor her mother prefers? Wyatt is determined to fight harder for Harley this time around thinking he has more than her family to fight this time but he comes to find all they ever had to do was stand up for what they wanted.
I hope with the lack of an epilogue to this story that means we get to see more of Harley and Wyatt in the future as I understand the next book in the series is the story of another character from this book which I am also really looking forward to.
Blurb:
With a glance Wyatt Doran stole Harley Tatum’s heart. With each summer that passed, touch by touch, they robbed each other’s innocence, birthing a love that was so deep that it scorched within. Without warning, they were ripped from the clutches of each other, placed in lives that were worlds apart. Only to cross paths after a freak accident where Harley’s horse rig was flipped. An accident that Wyatt Doran, from fire station 32, responded.
The tension was immediate, the emotions were raw. One breath told them they were not the same as before, one touch…changed their world.
The tension was immediate, the emotions were raw. One breath told them they were not the same as before, one touch…changed their world.
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