GRR Reviews Desire Me Dearly (Heron's Landing) by Iris Morland

Kat moved back to Heron's Landing Missouri to take care of her ailing grandma with dementia and taught computer classes in the local school. She came to care about a girl named Emma and Gavin, Emma's gruff father. It was clear Emma has an anxiety disorder, something Kat also suffered from, but Gavin refused to talk about it. In the meanwhile, Kat was fending off advances from another teacher, while receiving horrible misogynistic comments about a computer game she published online. When a dead goose with head chopped off was found in front of her door, things got really personal indeed, and she went to Gavin for help... // Gavin blamed himself for his wife's mental illness, and daughter Emma's condition (Emma found mommy lying on the bathroom floor, overdosed on sleeping pills) many years ago. There is no way he deserves someone like Kat, but they'll work together to protect Emma. The threats against Kat made his blood boil, and he offered his home as sanctuary, but whoever's threatening Kat is not done... and they may become collateral damage...

While the dance between the two characters was done quite nicely, the external threat was totally trope, and indeed, as soon as he was mentioned I knew he's the perp. The ending was trope as well. It was WAY too Hollywood (bad guy arrested, the hero was shot in the big fight, faints after making sure heroine's safe, wakes up in the hospital).

Category: Contemporary / Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: Couple met over child's anxiety disorder, but who's stalking the woman?

Overall Rating: 3/5

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