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Illustrated cover in pink showing a city skyline in the background. A brown-haired, bearded hot white guy in a purple hockey jersey with the number 22 on it in long dark pants and ice skates, with a helmet and hockey stick on the nearby (pink) ice, is holding a pretty young white woman in jeans, a long sleeved white top and black booties. He's holding her just under the butt level on the sides and living her and she'd kicking her legs happily and embracing his face and neck, leaning toward him and smiling
July 25, 2025

REVIEW: Sweet Thing by Kate Meader

KaetrinB- Reviewsabusive parent / age gap / Contemporary / hockey / nanny / NetGalley / single dad / Sports2 Comments

Content notes: Dear Kate Meader, Lars Nyquist is a defenseman for the Chicago Rebels. He’s part of the ‘dream team’ on defense with captain, Theo Kershaw. Theo is in his mid-40s and the coming hockey year may be his last. Theo has won multiple championships but Lars has yet to ... more >

May 24, 2022

REVIEW: Temptation in Istanbul by Hana Sheik

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / Harlequin / Harlequin Romance / Istanbul / Muslim / nanny / POC / POC author / single father / Somalia / Turkey5 Comments

Escape to Istanbul, where a nanny may just tempt a bruised billionaire to give love a second chance in this heartwarming romance by Hana Sheik. A single dad’s greatest temptation? The nanny on his doorstep! Billionaire Faisal is anxiously awaiting custody of his little girl, who’s been living miles away ... more >

May 12, 2022

REVIEW: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviewsaddict / Contemporary / Dark / Drugs / dysfunctional family / First-Person / horror elements / murder mystery / nanny / New-Jersey / Paranormal / present tense / Young-Adult6 Comments

From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes ... more >

September 3, 2020

REVIEW: A Nanny Called Alice by Barbara Hannay

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican heroine / Australia / Australian / Contemporary / nanny / orphans / Outback Brides Return to Wirralong series5 Comments

She’s thousands of miles from home and intent on proving her independence… When Alice Trembath is mugged in the stark Australian outback, she has two choices: return to the US with an “I told you so” from her conservative parents and join the family business, or take a job as ... more >

February 2, 2018

REVIEW: A Rancher’s Heart by Vivian Arend

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsCanada / Contemporary / cowboy / nanny / single dadComments Off on REVIEW: A Rancher’s Heart by Vivian Arend

Dear Vivian Arend, I admit I’m a sucker for a single dad story. There is something (possibly something I ought not be proud of because patriarchy) that gets me all melty when there’s an engaged, adoring, single dad as romance hero. The nanny/boss trope can be problematic of course. Not ... more >

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