This is such a refreshing story! It is nice to read about a couple who truly accepts their flaws (both physical and perceived) and still loves themselves and each other. Great book!

I love second chance romances as long as they have a happy ending and not a cliffhanger. Crossing Hearts provides both the second chance and the happy ending; but not without some work put in by both Hunter and Emerson.

So to be honest, it took me a minute to get accustomed to the name Emerson for a girl, but as the character developed, her name fit her well. She's strong, smart, stubborn, but kindhearted and wants to belong to a loving family, unlike her controlling parents. Add in Hunter, who works on his family farm and his injury which puts them back in contact.

The development of the story-line is excellent, the characters don't just meet again and fall back in love or straight into bed. They develop a working relationship, even though the chemistry is very obvious between them. Over a well developed plot, their relationship develops again as Emerson gets embroiled in Hunters physical therapy, life and his family.

Yet, here comes the plot twist, Emerson is unsure that Hunter can handle her real reason for returning home, her debilitating disease. And while she attempts to push Hunter away, he fights for her and they eventually get their love story and happy ending. I love a hero who will fight and pursue his heroine.

I truly loved this book and can't wait to see who is next in the Series, Eli (youngest) or Owen (oldest). And will it involve Daisy, Emerson's friend or another person from the town?

What happens when your past comes back into your life with no warning? Hunter Cross is injured on his family's farm. Ordered to do PT, he comes face to face with the woman who broke his heart 12 years ago. Emerson Montgomery would rather be anywhere else than back in her hometown of Millhaven. She is the new physical therapist and her first client is none other than Hunter. You can tell from their first meeting that there is still something between them. Can they let go of past hurts? Can Emerson trust Hunter with the secret she is hiding? This is a great book to start off Kimberly Kincaid's new series! She writes such amazing characters and you can't help but want to read more about the secondary characters! I can't wait to read more about this town. Hunter, Emerson, Owen, Eli and Daisy have captured my heart! I would definitely recommend this book!

A second-chance romance with secrets at its center, Crossing Hearts is a strong start to a promising series set in the Shenandoah Valley. After years of abusing it, Hunter’s shoulder has finally given out and he’s in dire need of physical therapy. Imagine his surprise when the woman who administers it is his childhood sweetheart, Emerson, who left town years ago and vowed never to return. As they get to know each other as adults, they have decisions to make about futures and plans and trust.

While Hunter played football in high school and may have even been good enough to go pro, he had no interest in leaving the family farm, Cross Creek. He lives and breathes that land, and while working with family drives him nuts, it is clear he doesn’t desire any other life. His heart was shattered when Emerson left him right after graduation to head off to a glittering medical career, and while I wouldn’t say he’s stayed bitter at her, he certainly hasn’t gotten over her.

Emerson did go off to a glittering career, but not one in surgery as her overbearing and perfectionist parents wanted. Instead, she chose physical therapy and ended up working for a NFL franchise and making quite a name for herself. She was determined to never set foot back in their small town again. (This determination is something I always find adorable in romance heroes and heroines, by the way. It’s almost its own trope at this point, it happens so frequently as a precursor to other events.)

She’s successful in that endeavor, until she’s diagnosed with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis and finds that her body can no longer carry her dreams. Stubbornly, she decides to keep this from everyone and just move back home. She spends the first part of the book avoiding her parents, who are extremely disappointed in her decision to leave such a great career behind, and she makes a valiant effort to dodge Hunter.

Hunter, you’ll be glad to know, cannot be dodged. As they rekindle their romance, he lovingly forces her to tell him what the deal is and she allows him to slowly start helping her. I could tell this was a herculean task for a woman such as Emerson, and its one I empathize with. I myself suffer from a chronic disorder and I used to be absolute rubbish at accepting help. I also hid a lot of my symptoms and my pains from my family and friends, although for different reasons to  Emerson’s. I also discovered that what Emerson eventually did - suffering alone for stubbornness’ sake - is a silly martyrdom when you have folks around you who love you and want to be helpful and supportive. So while others may roll their eyes at some of her decisions, I was in there with her and I get it.

What didn’t work as well for me is her dynamic with her parents. I don’t want to explore too much here for the sake of spoilers, but the resolution of their conflict felt a touch too convenient  and took me out of the story a bit.

The new love Emerson and Hunter find, however, is warm, comforting and real. Not only have they grown up a bit, but they now have Emerson’s MS to contend with. Those factors force their relationship to take a new shape and a new pace and Ms. Kincaid’s treatment of that growth is lovely. I could feel the couple learning the new versions of the other person and falling in love all over again.

Overall, Crossing Hearts is a charming book with a side of steamy romance and I think any fans of the tropes it plays with will greatly enjoy it.

Crossing Hearts is the 1st book in Kimberly Kincaid new series Cross Creek. 1st off let me say I love love love series when the entire family of siblings finds true love! Hunter Cross is the first brother to step up to the love battlefield in this series. Hunter loves working on his family farm and you can see it when it comes to his determination heal and ends up to going to his ex, Emerson, for physical therapy. Second Chance romance equals a plus in my world. I love that first Hunter and Emerson have to learn to be friends and trust each other before their HEA. I think their new friendship with each other helped show the growth from a teenager to adult and let them see the secrets and pressures that they both were under now and then and to finally trust each other with their full hearts. I <3 Hunter and Em!

I am super excited to see who gets the next book Owen or Eli? I need to know what caused those two brothers to consistently bicker.

Who ever knew my next book boyfriend would be a farmer! Loved, loved Hunter, sexy, caring and so compassionate. Emerson was amazing so strong, while keeping a secret from the rest of the world. A second chance romance between Hunter and Emerson, oh the sparks do fly.

Small town romance that will take your heart in and not let go. Packed full of emotions, that will bring happy and sad tears to your eyes. I'm loving the Cross family, three strong sexy boys raised by their father. Emerson has a big secret that she kept from everyone, and once she learns to trust Hunter, she is soon able to reveal her secret to her family and friends. Of course, you must have the foodies to be a Kimberly Kincaid book.

I highly recommend this book and can't wait for more of the Cross boys, including their Dad!!

Kimberly Kincaid’s style of writing never fails to pull me into her stories and make me wish I was a part of them. Crossing Hearts is beautifully written and encompasses everything I love about second chances. 

Hunter Cross is a smalltown boy who loves where he’s at. His high school sweetheart, Emerson Montgomery couldn’t leave fast enough. She left for college and he stayed to take care of the family farm. When Hunter injures his rotator cuff and he’s sent for physical therapy, imagine his surprise when he runs into Emerson again. For Hunter and Emerson, the more time they spend together, the more they realize their love for each other, never truly faded. Can they get right the second time around or will Emerson’s secret be too much to handle?

Crossing Hearts is highly recommended, in fact, I would suggest buying a copy for your keeper shelf because you will want to read it over and over again.

Crossing Hearts is book one in the Cross Creek series by Kimberly Kincaid.  I LOVED it.  THis book is about a second chancre at love and it grabs you right from the start,. Kimberly has a way of taking you right into the story.  If you like small town romance this it the book for you.... you will not be disapointed. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series...

Another amazing story by Ms Kimberly Kincaid!!! This is the first in the new (and wonderful) Cross Creek series. The book is Hunter and Emerson's journey to forever, and it is one you haven't seen before. Their story is one you won't be expecting with twists and turns that will insure your need for tissues. Can't wait for next one in this series to come out!!!! ❤❤❤

Sometimes you really can go home again!  Such a heartwarming story!  It's a reunion with your one true love type of story, and also filled with emotion pulling moments as she relearns the importance of living her life when a life changing medical diagnosis shifts her future.  Great characters, great connections, and I can't wait for more from Cross Creek!

Hunter Cross might have never left the comfort of his home town of Millhaven, Virginia, but he has no regrets.  He lives for the connection he enjoys working every day on his family farm with his father and brothers by his side.  He wouldn't have it any other way!  When an accident takes him out of commission for awhile, he's mighty unhappy about that ... especially when he catches sight of who is going to be in charge of his physical therapy for the next few weeks!

Emerson Montgomery made a promise to herself a dozen years ago to never step foot back in this town again .. yet here she is ... and running into her high school sweetheart right off the bat!  She left her high powered job with an NFL team in Las Vegas to come back home and settle into a small side-practice with the local Doc while refusing to tell anyone why she's suddenly downgrading her life.

As Hunter and Emerson spend time together for his therapy, they talk and begin to be friends again.  When it slowly turns into wanting those same old things with each other, she finally trusts him enough to admit her medical issues.  Will she find a way to let down her guard and move forward with a future with him, or will she keep putting up these walls and refusing to get the help that she needs from everyone around her?

What an amazing second-chance story!  When two hearts truly are fated to be together, neither time nor trials can keep them apart…..

Hunter Cross is dedicated: to his family’s farm, to his hometown, to keeping peace between his older and younger brothers.  And 12 years earlier, he was dedicated to his high school girlfriend, Emerson Montgomery.  But when he asked her to marry him right out of high school, Emerson said no and left Millhaven, Virginia in her rearview mirror for college and her dreams.   In those 12 years, Emerson became a noted physical therapist for a professional football team sited across the country, with a pro football player boyfriend as well.  Hunter stayed in Millhaven, living a simple, comfortable, straightforward life as a farmer.  They each were living in two very different worlds.  But Hunter’s simple world gets very complicated when a shoulder injury requires rest from the farm and some physical therapy.  And the new physical therapist in town, Emerson Montgomery, has openings in her schedule to take on a new patient!  What is going on?  Why is Emerson back in Millhaven? If she’s back, why did she leave?

Emerson Montgomery is indeed ready to schedule patients for her new Millhaven physical therapy practice.  She is back home to work at being a great physical therapist for Millhaven and to work at hiding her secrets.  As Emerson and Hunter reconnect, Emerson’s secrets from 12 years ago and the more recent ones begin to emerge, revealing the true reason she came back home.

With her deft touch, Ms. Kincaid tackles some very serious issues in this small-town romance in a sensitive but realistic manner.  All those years earlier, Emerson needed to flee Millhaven as the miasma of disapproval that descended on her from her parents only made the walls close in faster on her dreams.  And now, my jaw dropped when Emerson’s present “secret” is revealed to the reader!  Her actions, her feelings, her physical issues - all of a sudden it made sense. Hunter, too, was dealing with fighting brothers that have some unknown issue looming between them, and an aging parent who is working too hard.  As they spend time together, Hunter and Emerson realize the connection they had was not lost.  And as they face the difficulties that pop up and continue to loom, they discover that together they are stronger and better.

I have read all of Ms. Kincaid’s books, and they just keep getting better and better.  They are always well-written, always containing great characters, always must-reads!  And Crossing Hearts is no exception - a fantastic start to a new series.  I cannot wait for the remaining Cross brothers to get their turn in the pages!

The last person Hunter ever thought he would see again was his high school girlfriend, Emerson.  He asked her to stay and marry him, but she up and left. Now after he has hurt his shoulder again, he is shocked when his physical therapist turns out to be her. Emerson has her reasons for leaving an amazing job and high profile boyfriend to return to her hometown. Reasons she has no desire to share with anyone, especially Hunter.  Fate has other plans as these two start to grow closer again. Hunter vows to stand by her and help her when she tells him what is going on.  But will her refusal to tell anyone else the truth cause their relationship to fail again?
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book provided by NetGalley.

This is a Wonderful heartwarming Second Chance Romance Story. Set in the kind of beautiful small town that will always remember you even after a decade of being gone. 

Hunter Cross is the best kind of hometown boy with a heart of gold, strong deep roots keep him grounded. He is exactly what Emerson Montgomery needs to make her whole, however she is so determined to make her life on her own that she ignores what is right in front of her (has been all along). Sparks fly as the past and present collide in this highly entertaining healing power of love adventure. 
Looking forward to my next visit to Cross Creek.

This is the first book in a new series by Kimberly Kincaid and it is a really good start.  The cross family farm is run by three brothers and their dad in a small town in Northern Virginia.  Hunter is the middle son and this story centers around him.  It is a second chance love and although if you have read very many romance books, the themes are familiar, but feel fresh as told by Ms. Kincaid. The romance had a better than usual spin as there are strong subject matters discussed in this book which are not taken lightly.  I really appreciated her sensitivity to these issues, both medically and with the struggles of small time farming.  A good strong start and I am looking forward to reading more about this family.  I think both other brothers have stories to tell.  Thanks as always for allowing me to read this book for an honest review.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Mary Jo – ☆☆☆☆
A second chance at romance without the usual recriminations and hard feelings, which is unique in and of itself.

Both Hunter and Emerson have regrets about the past, but they do not let those cloud their current friendship. Hunter knows that Emerson is being less than truthful with him about something, but he doesn't stew about it or make it a big issue. When Emerson finally trusts him enough to tell him, he is overjoyed that that the trust they once shared is back.

I truly enjoyed this book and can't wait to read more about the Cross family.


Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
This is the first in a new series, and I can say that I am looking forward to reading more. The scene is set for this story, but with enough detail of the place and the people to imagine where future interest could lie.

Hunter is a good man, who chose to be selfless back when he and Emerson first got together, and continues in that vein with his family now. So when he needs Emerson to get him back to fitness, he starts to question just how strong he can be in the face of the one who got away.

Emerson has been leading a glamorous life as a PT to a leading sports team, and dating a player. However, her life has been turned upside down, and she has broken her promise to herself to never return to her hometown. Not only does Hunter live there, but also her overbearing and disappointed parents. As the reader sees her settle back in, but still keep her secrets, the inevitability of problems ahead is obvious, but are revealed in a really good way.

The chemistry between these two is like an intense, slow burn. Because we get both sides of the story, it smoulders almost immediately, but is fueled over the whole of Hunter's recovery. As they get to understand each other better, the whole story needs to come out before they can really move forward – and we definitely want them to!

I was eagerly waiting for CROSSING HEARTS, and at the same time dreading it. The subject matter is a tricky one, and I must say I was expecting endless angst, misunderstandings galore, handwringing. Emerson and Hunter handled every issue like responsible adults, and how they rekindled the romance was both believable and wonderful.  Hunter is exactly the type of hero I wish we would see more often: a compassionate, good, kind, caring, and hard-working man, who knows what he wants and is willing to work for it. Emerson is also fantastic, and does not reject systematically what is before her. The writing is flawless, the pace impeccable, the dialogues spot-on, and Ms. Kincaid knew where she was going with her story, and it shows; everything in CROSSING HEARTS is done to perfection. CROSSING HEARTS is proof that you can have a steamy romance with a serious subject and do it with heart. CROSSING HEARTS is Kimberly Kincaid at her absolute best, and I cannot wait to see where this series is going. This is a book that is not to be missed!

Crossing Hearts is the first book in Kimberly Kincaid's newest series Cross Creek. Its a small town romance and it's probably safe to say that the series revolves around three brothers and their beautiful farm in the Shenandoah Valley, Cross Creek.

Crossing Heart is a second chance romance but its a little bit more than that as well. Readers are introduced to Hunter and Emmerson, high school sweethearts so very much in love until one had to leave and the other stayed with a broken heart. Now twelve years later their path crosses again, this time around both have established fulfilling lives until one returns with more than success dodging their heels. 

I really love the tone and voice of this book, the plot is simple and yet still complex with characters that appear very real to me. The events surrounding them seems poised for drama but its the way these two characters interact that will keep readers glued to the page. You can't help but root for them and you definitely know that they will have their HEA. The farm as backdrop is just vividly described you can't help but suddenly crave for small town living and fresh produce. These is the charm of this book it just comes alive.

Crossing Hearts is a promising start to what can be another hit series for Ms. Kincaid.

This book is so good I wish I could give it more than 5 stars!  Hunter Cross and Emerson Montgomery were high school sweethearts who broke up when Emerson went away to college but now she is back in town and surprise Hunter walks into her physical therapy office after hurting his shoulder.  Emerson is back and working with Doc Sanders as a PT and Hunter is her first patient.  Four weeks of therapy is just what the doctor ordered.  Not only does this bring them closer but it isn't long before their friendship starts up and the undeniable chemistry flares. Too soon, though, the secret Emerson is keeping that brought her back to town comes out between them.  Will that bring them closer or keep them apart? This second chance romance hits all the spots and had me laughing and crying and turning pages almost faster than I could read to the bottom of the page because I wanted to know what was going to happen next.  I recommend this one and can hardly wait for the next in the series!

**Received an ARC for review from the publisher via NetGalley**

This is the first book I have read by this author and I have to say I was really impressed. Between the character build and the history between the characters, I was fully engaged throughout this story. The little twists and turns made it just that more amazing. I am looking forward to reading more from this author!

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3.75 Hearts I enjoyed this story. The reason I gave it 3.75 instead of 4 is there are just so many with the second chance at love storyline that it gets to be the same over and over. Now that being said this story was really good. 

When Emerson comes home it is not because it is where she wants to be but because she is sick and even though she doesn’t tell her family she still needs to be home. Hunter is a good guy who, of course, never got over his first love. I have to say the sex scenes are worth reading. 

The biggest problem was the illness. It just seemed to only be relevant when it was part of the plot and not other times. Meaning she can barely function at one point but can have the hot sex scenes I just talked about and let’s not even discuss the other physical activities she does without mention of hurting but having to push on, etc. 

I think the story is good and worth the read. 

Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.