Change of Heart by Jennifer Moore

Change of Heart by Jennifer Moore

This summer, Nathaniel Cavanaugh vacations in Lobster Cove to spend quality time with his kids after his estranged wife’s tragic death. Successful and well-connected, he is on the fast-track to the highest legal positions in the country, but his family life suffers. After an accident throws Val nearly into his lap and costs her a job opportunity, Nathaniel surprises himself by overlooking her outlandish appearance and lack of qualifications to offer her a job as his nanny for the summer.

Valdosta McKinley wishes for an internship at a Paris Art Institute to use her newly acquired art-history skills. She knows Nathaniel could never develop feelings for a girl from a trailer in a rural West Virginia holler—a lesson she learned the hard way years earlier.

Will the pursuit of their professional goals require Nathaniel and Val to give up the dream of being a family?

Excerpt:

The crashing of waves soothed him and let him relax as he enjoyed the warm drink. HIs eyes drifted shut.

“Mr. Cavanaugh?”

With a start, he opened his eyes. “I really think you should call me Nathaniel.”

He was starting to get drowsy.

“Sir, that would be completely inappropriate, not when I’m working for you.”

“That;s true, but sometimes you don’t seem like an employee.”

Val raised her eyes and their gazes met. “I don’t act veery professional, do I?”

“Than’s not what I meant. Sometimes, you seem more like a friend.” Nathaniel could tell that his guard was down. Why did talking to someone at night free people of their inhibitions? He needed to be careful not to say anything he’d regret.

Val picked at her nails. “I need to thank you again for coming to get me. It’s the second time you’ve rescued me. I’m not doing very well in the whole ‘being an independent woman’ department, am I?”

“That’s what friends do.” He closed his eyes and let his head fall back against the chair. Moments later, he sleepily registered Val had moved the blanket to cover him and took the empty mug from his hand, but he was too tired to do more than mutter. “Thanks.”

“Good night, Nathaniel.”

——

And he thought Val may love him too. Did she?

Nathaniel’s breath caught at the memory of their kiss, the way she’s looked at him this morning when he’d held her as she cried. Her unrestrained smile and dimpled cheeks, the laughter that bubbled up from her toes, and the simple moments like sitting in silence on the porch or sharing a look when one of the kids said something funny. How would he live without these things? And why should he? Why wasn’t he driving back to that apartment, breaking down her door, and kissing her senseless?

His fingers tightened on the steering wheel. He knew exactly why, Paris.

Author Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore is a passionate reader and writer of all things romance due to the need to balance the rest of her world that includes a perpetually traveling husband and four active sons, who create heaps of laundry that is anything but romantic. She suffers from an unhealthy addiction to 18th and 19th-century military history and literature. Jennifer has a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Utah and is a Guitar Hero champion. She lives in northern Utah with her family, but most of the time wishes she was on board a frigate during the Age of Sail.

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