Nothing Too Tame
She refuses to be tamed. He only wants her to stop carrying everything alone.
Book Two of the A Little Bit Ruined series by Tasha Zima
A guarded heart.
A patient man who keeps showing up.
Dr. Erin Kelly has everything under control—her veterinary clinic, an endless list of farm calls, and the heart she keeps safely guarded. She is tough, capable, and far too busy wrangling livestock to entertain anything as messy as love.
Adrian Blake is calm, patient, and quietly determined. He does not flinch when Erin snaps, runs, or pushes back. Instead, he shows up—with coffee, loyalty, and a steadiness she has never trusted anyone to offer.
As banter turns into lingering kisses and found family grows to include one surprise dog adoption, Erin begins to wonder whether accepting love means surrendering her independence—or finally letting someone share the weight.
Book Details
- Author: Tasha Zima
- Series: A Little Bit Ruined, Book Two
- Setting: Ashby Lake, a fictional Canadian small town
- Genre: Contemporary small-town romance
- ISBN: 9781069917478
- Ending: Happily-ever-after
- Slow burn
- Found family
- Competent heroine
- Soft hero with a spine of steel
- Banter that bites
- Surprise dog adoption
- Small-town community
Erin and Adrian, After Falling
Dr. Erin Kelly
Erin is fierce, grounded, bluntly honest, and deeply compassionate. In Book Two, the challenge is no longer whether she can handle life alone. It is whether she can trust love without mistaking support for control.
Adrian Blake
Adrian remains controlled, observant, and quietly intense. His strength is not in taming Erin or fixing her problems—it is in listening, standing firm, and continuing to choose her without asking her to become smaller.
Found Family in Ashby Lake
Oscar Vale and Dante Morales remain Erin’s sharp-witted, fiercely loyal emotional backup, while the farms, veterinary calls, and familiar gathering places of Ashby Lake keep pulling Erin and Adrian deeper into a community that refuses to let either of them hide forever.
Continue Erin and Adrian’s Story
Nothing Too Tame is Book Two of Erin and Adrian’s connected romance and is best read after Nothing Too Fancy. Together, the books follow a capable woman learning that being loved does not require being rescued, fixed, or tamed.