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Review

4 stars!

✓ Single Dad
✓ Rock Star
✓ Off Limits Nanny
✓ New Beginnings
✓ Melt Your Heart Swoonfest

This is such a cute read! A fun, sweet, sexy and swoony romance with lots of heart, it’s a fantastic story packed into a short novella, and I loved it!

This book is a crossover between Rachel Van Dyken’s Seaside Pictures series, and Kristen Proby’s Big Sky series. I haven’t read either, and I was easily sucked into this story and the world of these fabulous characters. If you’ve read those series, you’ll probably love this one even more, with strong involvement from the Seaside Pictures crew, and I’m really excited to go back and begin that series from the beginning to get their stories!

Trevor Wood is the drummer/sometime singer for hot rock band, Adrenaline. He’s also a single father to three adorably precocious children under 6 after his supermodel wife tired of the family life and up and left all three of them behind. He adores his children and is doing his best to provide them with a ‘normal’ childhood, but he’s struggling to balance it all.

Penny is the best friend of Fallon from the Big Sky series, and she has just moved to Seaside, Oregon, for a fresh start. She’s working as a barista when a harried-looking Trevor walks into her coffee shop. She recognises him as the man who was immortalised in posters all over her teenage bedroom wall, but it’s his kids that she is drawn to, and after seeing her interact with them, Trevor offers her a job on the spot as their Nanny.

Penny turns out to be just the thing that Trevor’s family needs – bringing life and light into the world of the three little kids still struggling with the desertion of their mother, and one overwhelmed father desperately in need of help. The bond between Penny and the children is immediate, and it doesn’t take long for Trevor to start to recognise what a gem she is, and for Penny to see the ‘real’ man behind the rock star, and an attraction to start to simmer.

They talk, they banter, and as they get to know each other, the chemistry sizzles! It’s a fun ride of ‘should I/shouldn’t I’, flirting and delicious moments of anticipation before things get steamy, and the build-up is fantastic! But acting on their attraction is one thing, dealing with the fact that they are actually falling for each other is another, and they have some issues to work through before they get their HEA. But I loved their journey which was full of fun times, sweet moments and sexy swoon.

Trevor is a gorgeous romantic hero. He’s a wonderful blend of sexy rockstar and overwhelmed single parent struggling with the demands of his life, and through it all, his love for his children absolutely shines. And Penny is a fantastic heroine – smart, sensible and funny, and I love the way she handles herself (and Trevor) as they figure out what is going on between them.

Trevor’s friends and bandmates are an absolute riot as they situate themselves right in the middle of the unfolding romance, and I loved the camaraderie and the fantastically fun dynamic between them. And his kids bring so much to the story with their sweetness and their antics. I laughed out loud so many times.

This is a really fun read, with fantastic audio narration by Peter Coleman and Brittany Pressley, and I’m really excited to explore this world further.

4 stars!