Description

I'm a professional hockey player and a single dad with two rambunctious five-year-old boys who've driven away every nanny who has stepped foot in our house—except one: the one I don't want to keep, but they do. Tatted and pierced, Gardenia Bliss is everything I dislike in a nanny and a woman. She's a mouthy whirlwind, an obsessive recycler, a buyer of organic-only food, and a lover of loud music. She's disrupted my household and destroyed my comfortable routine with her spontaneity. Even worse, we have a one-night history. I want her gone, but I also want her naked, which is all kinds of messed up.

My plans to send her packing are thwarted by a road trip and no other options available. By the time I return, she's completely entrenched herself in my house, my life, and my dirty thoughts. She has to go, but I haven't found a way to extract the boys from her clutches. They adore her.

Then my meddling, matchmaking mom shows up for the holidays and enlists Gardenia to help her find the perfect woman for me. The two of them are forces of nature I'm powerless to combat. They'll never know the truth—I don't want those other women. I want Gardenia, but I can't have her. She's all wrong for my boys and me, but tell that to my stupid heart.