This is such a wonderfully touching story! I’m not going to lie, I felt tears in my eyes several times as the story progressed. I absolutely loved the characters! The author made them real enough to step out of the pages and I was enthralled by the story and the struggles the characters faced. This was one HEA I was not sure of, but I enjoyed every minute on the way to getting there.

This is such a wonderfully touching story! I’m not going to lie, I felt tears in my eyes several times as the story progressed. I absolutely loved the characters! The author made them real enough to step out of the pages and I was enthralled by the story and the struggles the characters faced. This was one HEA I was not sure of, but I enjoyed every minute on the way to getting there.

I have read quite a few books by Sam Crescent and enjoyed them all. However this first book in Crescent’s “The Nannies” series is a bit different and much tamer than her normal darker fare, and well, despite being a bit vanilla for my tastes I can’t say I hate it. In fact quite the contrary, as I rather liked the more heartfelt, emotionally centered story about an unsuspecting billionaire and the baby that throws his life into turmoil.

Here with, “The Nanny and the Playboy”, Crescent gives...

I have read quite a few books by Sam Crescent and enjoyed them all. However this first book in Crescent’s “The Nannies” series is a bit different and much tamer than her normal darker fare, and well, despite being a bit vanilla for my tastes I can’t say I hate it. In fact quite the contrary, as I rather liked the more heartfelt, emotionally centered story about an unsuspecting billionaire and the baby that throws his life into turmoil.

Here with, “The Nanny and the Playboy”, Crescent gives us the story of Wayne, Temperance, and Timothy; Wayne being a forty year old business mogul famous as much for his womanizing prowess as he is for his business genius. An always in control, calculating, cold, and indifferent man with a well-guarded past, Wayne’s painstakingly manicured life is thrown a curveball when social services turns up with recently orphaned Timothy, a four year old boy they claim he is the father of. A moniker he refuses to accept, and being the cold-hearted bastard that he is, quickly uses his contacts to employ a nanny to deal with the child while he figures out how to debunk his newly found father status and send the boy away. And the nanny herself, Temperance, a highly regarded and much beloved nanny, a woman who takes her job seriously and cares deeply for her charges, so much so that she places her own life and desires for a family of her own on hold to care for other people’s children despite the heartache it brings her when she has to move on to a new family.

And my gods, when the nanny with a heart of gold and a deep, deep well of love for the children in her care meets the man made of ice and stone all hell breaks loose. What follows is a surprisingly complex and tender story of overcoming fear and second chances at life and love. A story about being brave enough to admit when you are wrong and then doing whatever it takes to make things right.

I was quite frankly a bit shocked at the seriousness of the overall tone of this story. It is far beyond a simple boss/employee romance trope; here Crescent delves deeper, giving us characters that have to make life altering decisions and deal with the very real consequences they bring. She plunges Wayne and Temperance into chaos, tilts their worlds sideways, and puts them both on a journey that will alter both their lives, all the while maintaining a level of chemistry between the two that will melt your heart and bring tears to your eyes at different times throughout.

It was a great story, one that definitely took me by surprise, and once again taught me that you most definitely cannot judge of romance book by its cover…

”All of his life all he’d ever really wanted was a family of his own, and yet he had nothing. No woman he trusted or even loved, no kids, nothing.”

Great story! Sam Crescent rarely lets me down! I wouldn’t do much call Wayne a playboy as much as a selfish workaholic. I also liked that Tempe wasn’t some fresh faced 20 year old nanny but a 30 year old woman with 12 years of experience who knew exactly what she was getting into. It was so sweet watching the two of them fall in love not only w...

”All of his life all he’d ever really wanted was a family of his own, and yet he had nothing. No woman he trusted or even loved, no kids, nothing.”

Great story! Sam Crescent rarely lets me down! I wouldn’t do much call Wayne a playboy as much as a selfish workaholic. I also liked that Tempe wasn’t some fresh faced 20 year old nanny but a 30 year old woman with 12 years of experience who knew exactly what she was getting into. It was so sweet watching the two of them fall in love not only with each other but with Timothy as well. Great book and I’ll be checking out others in this nanny series.