How to live with the man you love but it’s not reciprocated…

Synopsis

I’ve been in love with Ramiro Jimenez since my junior year in college, and now, his fiancée is dead. No cause and effect between the two.

Suddenly finding himself the sole guardian of two little boys, Ramiro steps into fatherhood. With his entire world upturned, drowning in his grief, he looks to me, of all people, for help he claims only I can provide.

I became a nurse to help people, so there’s no way to say no when he asks for the unimaginable—to move in with him for a year. In exchange for my help, he’ll cover my room and board so I can pay off my nursing degree debt faster.

Now I just have to figure out how my unrequited-lovesick heart will survive being forced to see him every day.

Sensation is a steamy, slow-burn, forced proximity, single dad romance in the Heartland Metro Hospital series and can be read as a complete standalone with a guaranteed happily ever after.

My review

Sara has loved Ramiro the moment she met him for the first time. And even if Ramiro never gave Sara an inkling that the feelings were mutual, her feelings never disappeared.
Even when the most terrible thing happens, Sara does not hesitate to be there for the man she loves. Even if that means to live with Ramiro who has just lost his fiancée and who has become the guardian of two little boys.
Sara living with Ramiro and the boys means that she can help them to get their lives back on track, grieve for their loss, while she will able to pay off her nursing degree debt easier.
However, will Sara her feelings diminish seeing a grieving man every day, knowing he will never be hers? Or can so much change in just a year? 

Sometimes before you start to read a book, you think you have figured out how the plot will evolve and that you won’t be having any surprises.
But while I had that thought with this book, the author wrote a complete different, yet amazing story! 

I think it’s safe to say that every one of us has ever been in love with someone but the feelings weren’t mutual.
So in that way, Sara was very recognizable. She knows that Ramiro doesn’t have the same feelings for her, but that won’t stop her from being there for him in his most difficult moments. 

Even when she agrees to live with him and the boys René and Oscar, shows us just how deep her feelings go.
It would be easier for Sara to just take a step back, but her kindness and altruism won’t let her walk away from people in need. 

And for me, Sara being there was somehow more important than the romance. She is not only there to help Ramiro, but she is also supporting the three people who are grieving on their own way.
She sees the pain Ramiro, René and Oscar are feeling, the grief that is consuming them on different ways. And with her being herself, understanding the sense of abandonment better than anyone else, finds a way to help them. 

Living together with the man you love is of course not easy, and Sara also sees that while she stills loves Ramiro, she has to think also for herself.
I liked how the author described how Sara was feeling while getting back on the scene. With Sara’s past, her slow steps for sure made sense.
And knowing that feelings just don’t disappear, Sara dating someone else isn’t easy for her.  

What warmed my heart, was seeing how slowly, on their own way, Sara, Ramiro, René and Oscar started to form a unique family on their own.
The boys for sure stole my heart, and their hurt for sure broke my heart. Being so young and losing their rock just wasn’t fair to them. Yet seeing them overcoming slowly their pain, and becoming young boys again was wonderful.
And then that scene in the church, for sure dampened my eyes!  

It would be easy as a reader to pick a side in the sudden love triangle Sara finds herself in. But while Ramiro took a very long time to come to senses, Sara didn’t start to date a jerk that we want quickly out of the picture. Because Davyn is just a great guy, who also deserves happiness.

While the final choice did not come as a total surprise, I felt sad that there was one party who got heart – broken while he deserved more… 

This isn’t the easy story that I expected, as several difficult subjects in this book. There is grief, loss, trauma’s, even neglect. But there is also a lot of love, kindness and most of all, heart in it.
Because no matter what happened, love and heart are the perfect cure for so much heartbreak. And a little bit of tele – novella drama and laughter never hurts!