She’s a preacher’s daughter, a runaway bride and now the (not quite) qualified nanny for a sexy tattoo artist with a beautiful daughter—and a dirty mouth.
What’s a bad boy to do with a woman like her?
Everything…
Aaliyah Montgomery isn’t just ditching her wedding. She’s also fleeing her suffocating small town and her family’s expectations. She’s got plans—for college, for finding herself. But landing a job in Chicago that fits her schedule isn’t easy. Good thing Von Howard is desperate to find a live-in nanny. Bad thing that he’s a gritty, grumpy, gorgeous tattoo artist carrying as much baggage as he has ink.
Von’s new hire is inexperienced and a fire hazard in the kitchen. She’s also all thick curls, thicker curves, and a distracting mix of innocence and sensuality. After the upheaval of a divorce, he just needs a nanny, not a sneaky link. Meanwhile, Aaliyah is bonding with his seven-year-old and showing an unexpected flair for tattoo art. Who could resist?
Yet deep down, Aaliyah’s still running—from her feelings and her fear of losing herself to someone else’s expectations again. Even as their pasts return to haunt them, their undeniable heat says maybe it’s time to stand and fight for a love they didn’t see coming.
Aaliyah has always followed the edicts of her family which includes planning to marry a man she doesn’t love and live a life she doesn’t want. Deciding she can’t do it she ventures to Chicago to stay with her cousin and follow her dreams. One of those dreams is college so she agrees to take a job working for Von as a nanny.
Von is a tattooist and a single father to his daughter. His marriage is a mistake he doesn’t want to repeat, and he believes that Aaliyah is everything that he doesn’t want in a woman but the more time he spends with her and sees the woman she is destined to be the more intriguing she becomes.
I enjoyed seeing Aaliyah spread her wrings and with the support of Von gain the confidence and realize that she doesn’t have to conform to anyone’s view of her but that she is a fierce woman who deserves to be loved for who she is and not what people want her to be.
AUTHOR BIO
USA Today Bestselling author Naima Simone loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing “crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.”
She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bullet proof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.
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