Billionaire CEO Nic Price lives for his job. With sales down and grumbling from the board of directors—including Nic’s permanently dissatisfied father—the last thing Nic needs is distraction from the new manny, whose freewheeling approach to childcare is outlandish... and who makes Nic feel things he’s never allowed himself to feel.
Ex-teacher Sasha Lindsey is all about fun—that’s the reason people love him, so he has to be. After a bad break-up leaves him jobless and homeless, the live-in manny job with Mr. Price seems like a windfall. But his chemistry with Nic is off the charts, and he can’t afford another workplace romance disaster.
Can Nic leave his dominance in the bedroom and open his heart to the best thing that’s ever happened to him? Or will Sasha’s leap of faith backfire and ruin his chances at the family happily ever after he’s always dreamed of?
I wanted to love this, I really did. I’m a huge fan of the stoic, uptight father figure falling for the caretaker of his children who mixes fun with learning and in turn, melts the father’s heart. I mean, The Sound of Music is one of my favorite movies, ever. But Nic is no Captain Von Trapp and Sasha isn’t even close to being Maria, though he was inventive with ways to teach the kids.
This could be a case of it’s me and not the book but I just couldn’t get on board with any of what was going on. I didn’t like Nic to start out with and loathed the holy hell out of his parents. Sasha was more likeable but his career choices left me scratching my head because working in education, he had way more resources than leaving a teaching position midterm to be a manny in another state no matter what happened. When Nic and Sasha meet? It’s nothing but eye fucking and thinking about fucking and how perfect Sasha was or how perfect Nic was and I wasn’t enjoying myself at all. I couldn’t find the chemistry between these two and the only enjoyable characters for me were Nic’s nephew Ben, niece Lucy and friend/assistant Percy. I tried to read it more as a family drama and focus on that aspect but that didn’t even work for me.
I don’t know. You win some, you lose some and this wasn’t a win for me at all.
An ARC was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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