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A Nanny Named Nick
Single mom seeks experienced live-in carer for baby boy. Immediate start. Fly-by-nights need not apply.
Nick Joseph was every woman's darkly handsome and great with kids. Linda just couldn't say no when he offered his services as temporary nanny to her baby boy.
Soon she was as attached to Nick as little Rory was. But Nick had made it clear he was not a marrying kind of man, so how could Linda tell him that she wanted him to look after her , and not just Rory, permanently?
What's more, how would Nick react when he learned that he was caring for his own son?
Nick Joseph was every woman's darkly handsome and great with kids. Linda just couldn't say no when he offered his services as temporary nanny to her baby boy.
Soon she was as attached to Nick as little Rory was. But Nick had made it clear he was not a marrying kind of man, so how could Linda tell him that she wanted him to look after her , and not just Rory, permanently?
What's more, how would Nick react when he learned that he was caring for his own son?
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
About the author
Miranda Lee
823 books238 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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February 3, 2019
Re A Nanny Named Nick - Miranda Lee proves she is the sister of Emma Darcy with her contribution of book three to the Nanny Wanted series.
Tho the romance/instalurve/lurve clubbing in 62 positions is ALL ML style, she definitely borrowed the other aspects of her 35 yr old H from her big sister's more unusual HP voyages.
The premise to this one is that the h is 31 and a magazine editor. Three years before the story starts, the h's long time roving war correspondent lover was killed. The only thing that brought the h out her intense grief and pain was the thought of having a baby.
So the h convinced her brother, who is not into marriage or kids after his divorce, to help her find a suitable sperm donor. The brother gets his mysterious drifter friend, who likes to roam around on a Harley and plays piano like Beethoven or Mozart, to donate some of his motilators to the cause.
The drifter friend, soon to be the H, thinks that his motilators went to help an infertile older couple and just to really muddle things up, the h's brother later claims the motilators did not work.
The h has no clue who the father of her child is, she just knows that her brother came thru with the goods.
Her son is adorable and smart and quite a handful and too late the h learned that full time mumhood was not exactly her cuppa. She loves her son dearly, but she had a hard time focusing only on being a mum.
Her solution was to hire her widowed next door neighbor who raised five kids to watch her son during the day, while she resumed her career.
(You could almost say ML was making a stab at unwed, single mumhood, but I did not read it like that. I kinda felt ML was trying to say that single mumhood is hard, the h made that choice in the midst of a life crisis and so the h has a sharper learning curve than other woman in HPlandia do.)
Everyone believes the the h's son is the son of her dead lover, because the h is very sensitive to her son's conception being revealed. But actually the son is the offspring of her brother's roving BFF and these two meet up when the h calls her brother for help at her house in preparation for a dinner party.
The H answers the brother's phone and because the sister sounds interesting, the H decides to help out. When he gets to the h's house, she is at work and her neighbor is there with the little boy. The H gets the neighbor's explanation that the h was left preggers by her dead lover and then the neighbor nanny has a fall and hurts herself and the H is left with the toddler.
When the h comes home from work, the attraction is instant and fiery. The h is a little shocked to see a guy who looks like a biker in her shower, (the H was working outside and wanted to clean up,) and even more surprised when the toddler and the H bond like super glue right away.
In fact, the H is better at baby care than the h is and after a check in with neighbor nanny now in hospital, the H agrees to stay and help the h out for the evening. Over the course of the dinner party, the H and h's mutual attraction grows and explodes in the aftermath of dessert.
The h had some lurve club inhibitions induced by her mother when she got caught playing doctor with a neighbor boy when she was seven, but the H's powerful lurve force mojo soon blows them away.
The purple passion is epic, on the lux custom piano and by the next morning, the h is ready to ask the H to stay. He agrees and is soon all about nannying the son during the day and lurving it up with the h at night.
We gets some cute little domestic incidents and a LOT of passion moments. A week goes by and the h and H decide they are in love and the H decides that his roving life is over and he is ready to try to marriage again.
(The H had been a concert pianist in his early twenties and married. His wife and baby were killed by a truck driver on drugs who crashed and the H won a big settlement for negligence. Then took himself off to a roving lifestyle for many years to outrun his grief and guilt.)
But the h's magical healing lurve mojo has cured the H of his rambling ways and he and the h and the toddler make a lovely family that he just adores.
The h is just as madly in love and adoring back, so the only thing left is for the h's brother to confess his deception and the H and h to celebrate with more purple passion that indeed the HPlandia Deities work in mysterious ways.
This one was cute and fluffy and the H was pretty funny. If you are in the mood for a light hearted romp with extra purple romping moments, you won't go wrong with this HP outing.
Tho the romance/instalurve/lurve clubbing in 62 positions is ALL ML style, she definitely borrowed the other aspects of her 35 yr old H from her big sister's more unusual HP voyages.
The premise to this one is that the h is 31 and a magazine editor. Three years before the story starts, the h's long time roving war correspondent lover was killed. The only thing that brought the h out her intense grief and pain was the thought of having a baby.
So the h convinced her brother, who is not into marriage or kids after his divorce, to help her find a suitable sperm donor. The brother gets his mysterious drifter friend, who likes to roam around on a Harley and plays piano like Beethoven or Mozart, to donate some of his motilators to the cause.
The drifter friend, soon to be the H, thinks that his motilators went to help an infertile older couple and just to really muddle things up, the h's brother later claims the motilators did not work.
The h has no clue who the father of her child is, she just knows that her brother came thru with the goods.
Her son is adorable and smart and quite a handful and too late the h learned that full time mumhood was not exactly her cuppa. She loves her son dearly, but she had a hard time focusing only on being a mum.
Her solution was to hire her widowed next door neighbor who raised five kids to watch her son during the day, while she resumed her career.
(You could almost say ML was making a stab at unwed, single mumhood, but I did not read it like that. I kinda felt ML was trying to say that single mumhood is hard, the h made that choice in the midst of a life crisis and so the h has a sharper learning curve than other woman in HPlandia do.)
Everyone believes the the h's son is the son of her dead lover, because the h is very sensitive to her son's conception being revealed. But actually the son is the offspring of her brother's roving BFF and these two meet up when the h calls her brother for help at her house in preparation for a dinner party.
The H answers the brother's phone and because the sister sounds interesting, the H decides to help out. When he gets to the h's house, she is at work and her neighbor is there with the little boy. The H gets the neighbor's explanation that the h was left preggers by her dead lover and then the neighbor nanny has a fall and hurts herself and the H is left with the toddler.
When the h comes home from work, the attraction is instant and fiery. The h is a little shocked to see a guy who looks like a biker in her shower, (the H was working outside and wanted to clean up,) and even more surprised when the toddler and the H bond like super glue right away.
In fact, the H is better at baby care than the h is and after a check in with neighbor nanny now in hospital, the H agrees to stay and help the h out for the evening. Over the course of the dinner party, the H and h's mutual attraction grows and explodes in the aftermath of dessert.
The h had some lurve club inhibitions induced by her mother when she got caught playing doctor with a neighbor boy when she was seven, but the H's powerful lurve force mojo soon blows them away.
The purple passion is epic, on the lux custom piano and by the next morning, the h is ready to ask the H to stay. He agrees and is soon all about nannying the son during the day and lurving it up with the h at night.
We gets some cute little domestic incidents and a LOT of passion moments. A week goes by and the h and H decide they are in love and the H decides that his roving life is over and he is ready to try to marriage again.
(The H had been a concert pianist in his early twenties and married. His wife and baby were killed by a truck driver on drugs who crashed and the H won a big settlement for negligence. Then took himself off to a roving lifestyle for many years to outrun his grief and guilt.)
But the h's magical healing lurve mojo has cured the H of his rambling ways and he and the h and the toddler make a lovely family that he just adores.
The h is just as madly in love and adoring back, so the only thing left is for the h's brother to confess his deception and the H and h to celebrate with more purple passion that indeed the HPlandia Deities work in mysterious ways.
This one was cute and fluffy and the H was pretty funny. If you are in the mood for a light hearted romp with extra purple romping moments, you won't go wrong with this HP outing.
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June 21, 2020
This deserves more stars but had to fair because the heroine was about as neurotic as I’ve ever seen in an HP. She was a single mother hanging on by a thread! Wow.
He was great. Lots of backstory and he didn’t seem like hero material at first, but the more that was revealed, the more you were rooting for him.
Overall, a great read.
He was great. Lots of backstory and he didn’t seem like hero material at first, but the more that was revealed, the more you were rooting for him.
Overall, a great read.
March 14, 2021
The cover was so cute but the story was cuter , nick was such good man ,miranda lee always khows how to write a fluffy , sweet and sexy story .
March 6, 2012
Miranda Lee has a delightful sense of humour which comes out wonderfully in this book. Nick is a young man running from a painful past. Linda is a young single mom struggling with her feelings of inadequacies as a mother. When fate brings these two together, not only do sparks fly, but both realize that they need more in their lives and are ready to reach for love again. I enjoyed this story very much.
December 2, 2018
What a lovely story. I can understand why the brother didn't have a lot to do with his nephew. He was probably worried that he would blurt out, to his sister, who the father of her baby was.
January 7, 2020
Omgggggggggggggg. I picked this up years ago after reading the back and finally read it. WOW. It’s funny how the author used “feminist “ as an Insult, I would guess that you probably don’t know what a feminist is. I’m
Glad I was able to read one of these books during my lifetime.
Glad I was able to read one of these books during my lifetime.
March 25, 2019
I need to stop reading Miranda Lee’s books. They are not for me, no matter how mesmerizing the covers or titles. Although I did like the Australian setting of this one so...yay?
January 22, 2022
Relecture - Une héroïne et une histoire originales pour l'époque
February 11, 2023
Cute but not great.
June 30, 2013
This was a decent read with believable characters, but the reason that it got a lower rating is that it happened too fast for me to believe that these characters fell for each other so fast.
Still, it was enjoyable.
Still, it was enjoyable.
January 27, 2014
Un harlequin diferente que no demora eternidades en seguir curso, lo unico malo un personaje secundario que debia ser mas fuerte termino siendo una pobre copia
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