Elsie Silver is a Canadian author who specializes in “small-town romance” novels that feature “dirty-talking alpha heroes and strong heroines who clap back” (“<a href="https://www.elsiesilver.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">About Elsie Silver</a>.” Elsie Silver). While each of her novels features a distinct romantic relationship, Silver claims on her website that “at their core,” her publications are “all books that [she] [her]self would enjoy reading” (“<a href="https://www.elsiesilver.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">About</a>”). Her titles include the five Chestnut Springs novels (<a href="https://www.supersummary.com/flawless-elsie-silver/summary/?searchId=2eb0df08-571e-4884-8add-13960dd6a53a&amp;searchPosition=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flawless</a>, Heartless, <a href="https://www.supersummary.com/powerless-elsie-silver/book-brief/?searchId=4ca91ad2-a5ea-4e3a-9c45-03787781f9b3&amp;searchPosition=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Powerless</a>, Reckless, and Hopeless), as well as the four Gold Rush Ranch novels (Off to the Races, A Photo Finish, The Front Runner, and A False Start). The family dynamics and conflicts portrayed in Heartless are inspired by Silver’s personal life. In the acknowledgments section of the novel, she explains that “writing a book about a little boy the same age as [her] own [son] will always hold a special place in [her] heart” (421). She goes on to say that the “countless notes in [her] phone about hilarious things [her son has] said over the past several months” helped to inspire the finer nuances of Luke Eaton’s character and his relationship with <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.

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