Title: The Heartbreak Hotel
Author: Ellen O'Clover
Publisher: Berkley Romance
Release Date: September 23, 2025
A bed-and-breakfast for the brokenhearted might hold the key to another chance at love in this achingly hopeful debut romance.
Louisa Walsh emerged from a tumultuous childhood with a degree in counseling, a wealthy boyfriend, and her sunny outlook on life mostly intact. But that optimism is tested when she’s dumped and left unable to afford rent on their gorgeous house in the mountains of Colorado. Even with her life in disarray, Lou knows losing the one stable place she’s ever called home is not an option.
Her plan: ask her reclusive landlord, Henry Rhodes, to let her stay for free in exchange for renting out the house’s many rooms as a bed-and-breakfast. She’s shocked when he agrees to her terms, and even more surprised to discover Henry is a handsome thirtysomething veterinarian with silver at his temples and sadness in his eyes. One who does not take it well when Lou starts marketing her B and B as a retreat for the recently heartbroken.
But as the Comeback Inn opens its doors to its weary, hopeful guests, Lou and Henry find themselves dancing around both their undeniable connection and the closely held secrets that threaten to topple this fragile new start. A chance at love, here, could be too close to home…or it could be exactly where their hearts finally heal.
Louisa Walsh is nursing a broken heart. The love of her life has dumped her—not only was he cheating, but now, on her own, she can’t afford the rent on their beautiful home in the Colorado mountains. She risks losing the place she’s poured countless hours into making her own.
But Louisa doesn’t give up. She hatches a plan to turn the large house into a bed-and-breakfast. The only hurdle? Convincing her landlord, Henry Rhodes, to agree.
Louisa had always assumed Henry was older, but when she visits him at work to pitch her idea, she discovers her mistake. Henry is young—and the local veterinarian.
The more Henry helps with the chores around the property, the more he and Louisa realize they share a real connection.
I really enjoyed this love story. Both main characters were healing from heartbreak and found common ground in that shared pain. I loved that Louisa had a strong support system and that she chose to pay it forward by helping others who were hurting just as she had been.
Cliffhanger: No
3.5/5 Fangs
A complimentary copy was provided by Berkley Romance via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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