Review:
Diana Parker puts every spare penny she has into trying to help her sister with her medical bills. Her sister, Alice, is on dialysis and needs a kidney transplant. Diana is willing and able to be her donor, but issues with Alice's soon-to-be-ex-husband have resulted in her currently having no health insurance coverage for herself and her kids. Diana needs $40,000 ASAP.
She has a plan, albeit not one that makes her or Alice very comfortable. Diana and Alice's mother was a notorious conwoman, and Diana learned a lot of her mother's tricks before she was eventually caught and sent to prison. Diana doesn't want to be like her mother - in fact, she has spent her adult life trying to be as honest as possible. But she's just come across an incredible job ad posted by a wealthy couple looking for a live-in nanny to accompany them to Aspen for three months, for which they'll pay $40,000. They want someone who can teach their five-year-old son math, French, and how to ski. The sum total of Diana's matching qualifications? She has babysat before.
When she's somehow hired for the job, Diana is both thrilled and overwhelmed with guilt. She decides to do her absolute best and hopes that her lies about her qualifications aren't immediately uncovered. Putting her all into this job doesn't exactly leave much room anything else, and yet Diana somehow repeatedly finds herself in the orbit of Griffin Windsor, a charming and handsome earl.
This was one of my Book Bonanza purchases. I swear, at the rate I'm going, I'll still be working my way through those purchases a decade from now.
I wasn't sure how well this would work for me, since I'm not fond of characters who have to lie all the time. Thankfully (I guess?), Sheila Crawford (the mom) did absolutely no digging into any aspects of Diana that didn't quite add up, and Diana, for her part, was as honest as she could be about everything else, so mostly this was nice people being nice. It wasn't really believable, and it was kind of horrifying how easily Sheila trusted Diana, but it was so fluffy and sweet that it ended up working for me anyway.
Milo, the five-year-old, was a bit of a hypochondriac, and Griffin's niece, Sophie, was equally horrifying/amusing in her own way. The two of them made for a nice excuse for Diana and Griffin to spend time with each other (play dates!). If I remember right, this was a kissing-only romance novel, no sex scenes, which I tend to prefer when there are kids involved in some way.
I loved the part where Milo learned how to ski - as an anxious person myself, all the support he got from Diana and Griffin gave me warm fuzzies.
Yeah, so things wouldn't have gone so well for Diana in the real world, but I didn't really care. All that niceness really hit the spot.
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