The Healing Hearts Series by Ruby Scott

What if everything you thought you wanted was exactly what you didn't need? Investment banker Jessica Taylor has spent her entire life checking Ivy League education ✓, corner office ✓, London promotion pending ✓. The last thing on her list is inheriting seven cats and a crumbling Victorian house from the great-aunt her family considered an embarrassment. Dr. Ali Ritchie knows about starting over... moreWhat if everything you thought you wanted was exactly what you didn't need? Investment banker Jessica Taylor has spent her entire life checking Ivy League education ✓, corner office ✓, London promotion pending ✓. The last thing on her list is inheriting seven cats and a crumbling Victorian house from the great-aunt her family considered an embarrassment. Dr. Ali Ritchie knows about starting over. After her own devastating breakdown, she's rebuilt her life around healing wounded animals and keeping humans at arm's length. But there's something about the perfectly controlled banker slowly melting under the influence of seven demanding cats that makes Ali want to risk her carefully guarded heart. As litter boxes replace boardrooms and cat hair ruins designer suits, Jessica discovers that some of life's best gifts come with claws attached. But when the career opportunity she's worked toward her entire life finally arrives, she'll have to choose between the future she planned and the love she never saw coming. Because sometimes the family you inherit is exactly the one you need. less

What happens when two ice queens collide — and neither one melts first? Shannon McAllister runs search and rescue in the Colorado mountains with iron discipline and zero tolerance for small talk. She hasn't let anyone close in five years. Not because she doesn't feel things — because she does, and that's worse. She's made herself untouchable. It's worked so far. Tess Calder has been hired to decide whether Shannon's job should exist... moreWhat happens when two ice queens collide — and neither one melts first? Shannon McAllister runs search and rescue in the Colorado mountains with iron discipline and zero tolerance for small talk. She hasn't let anyone close in five years. Not because she doesn't feel things — because she does, and that's worse. She's made herself untouchable. It's worked so far. Tess Calder has been hired to decide whether Shannon's job should exist. She's the consultant nobody wants and everybody underestimates. Analytical, guarded, and so tightly wound she colour-codes her panty drawer, Tess doesn't do feelings. She does data. Data doesn't let you down, doesn't leave, and doesn't look at you the way Shannon McAllister looks at her when she thinks no one's watching. Two women who've perfected the art of keeping everyone at arm's length. One six-month audit that puts them in each other's orbit — and neither of them is prepared for what happens when the distance stops working. A wildfire tears through the mountains, and through every certainty they've clung to. Now Tess has a report to write that could end Shannon's career — or destroy her own. And Shannon has to decide what terrifies her losing her job or letting someone stay. Meanwhile, Tess's mother Colette — part chaos agent, part unwanted life coach, and entirely without boundaries — has arrived uninvited, unpacked her crystals, discovered Tess's most private possession, and set her sights on a captivating eighty-three-year-old grandmother named Yaya. You'll either love her or want to lock her in a cupboard. Possibly both. Wild Hearts is a slow-burn sapphic romance A fresh take on the double ice queen trope — two guarded women undoing each otherForced proximity and workplace tension with real professional stakesA wildfire rescue that changes everythingFound family in a mountain SAR teamA scene-stealing mother you'll argue about for daysA dog called Kep who deserves his own bookSteam that earns its slow burnAll the feels. Bring tissues. Wild Hearts is the third book in the Healing Hearts series and can be read as a standalone. HEA guaranteed. less