Reading Pathways: Rebekah Weatherspoon

First up, read this delightfully-titled romance about a surgeon who is a single mother, and the man who takes care of her twin daughters. When Dr. Sloan Copeland’s nanny leaves without warning, she’s in desperate need of someone to watch her kids. She finds an amazing caregiver in Rafe, who is an experienced nanny even if he doesn’t look the part. But she also finds a sexual attraction that she’s never experienced before. Rafe is an amazing hero who is hyper-masculine but without any toxic traits. This books is as fun and fluffy as the title suggests, but with some serious discussions about power dynamics and some interference from Sloane’s emotionally abusive ex-husband. Both Sloan and Rafe are good people who are good for each other. They both just have complicated lives they need to figure out before they can reach their happy ending.

Think that a romance novel can’t get more fun than a buff, male nanny? Next, read the first book in Weatherspoon’s Cowboys of California series, which remixes western romances with fairytale retellings. In this Sleeping Beauty remix, Evie is a celebrity chef who has to leave NYC for her childhood home on California ranch after a traumatic brain injury leaves her with amnesia. Zach is Evie’s childhood love who’s determined to create a second chance for them. Evie feels a romantic pull towards Zach, but doesn’t remember their tumultuous history. How their relationship will survive when she recovers her memories is the question that hangs over this suspenseful romance.

Now that you’ve read two lighter romances, here is a BDSM romance novel that will emotionally break you. Claudia runs away from violent attackers on a camping trip, straight to a remote cabin in the woods. Shepherd, a reclusive nature photographer, saves her and takes her to the hospital. He doesn’t expect her to show up on his doorstep again months later. Both are struggling with lingering effects from the traumatic night they met. But both feel drawn to each other. Shepherd has sworn off relationships since his ex-girlfriend kink shamed him for his BDSM desires. But he agrees to spend one week with Claudia, where they can open up to each other and explore their fantasies. Sex doesn’t fix their problems, but both begin to process their grief and guilt through the relationship. Can they have a happy ending? This is a romance novel, so I’m guessing you know the answer…but be warned you are going to have to shed some tears as a reader before you get there.