Posted: April 22, 2015
Hot man for hire...Rachel Clarke is a single mom with three boys, and she needs help. Now. Unfortunately, her only option is John MacDonald-her high school sweetheart and the disgraced hometown hero who's just returned to Lake Bliss. He's perfect for the job. He cooks, he cleans, and he's amazing with kids. He's also still far too sinfully hot for Rachel's comfort...
Rachel is just as gorgeous as John remembers. But in order for his new youth activity center to be a success, John needs Rachel's help to earn the town's trust back. In exchange, he'll take care of her boys for the summer while she works. Except keeping their relationship strictly business is harder than he imagined. But summer can't last forever, and when it ends, so will their arrangement-and John's time in Lake Bliss.
MY REVIEW:
How
parents hurt their kids in divorces or separations its numbers are too large to
count. For John MacDonald it was
overwhelming. It burned bridges that his
son never even knew would be crossed someday.
To be mean John’s dad took full custody
away from his mom. To make life easier
on his mom John cut down on visiting his mom to save his mom from his dad’s
wrath. Once he had custody he for the
most part ignored John like he did before the divorce. He just took custody out of spite. No unusual.
When he noticed John’s grades were tanking he hired a tutor.
This tutor Rachel Clarke tutored John in
Math and English as time went on they got closer. He took her to his senior prom where they
made love after in her dorm room. His
dad found out because he went home and told his father he didn’t want to go to
USC or UCLA he wanted to go to UW. So,
that’s when his father knew they were more than tutor and student. Mr. MacDonald went to her and told her she
could hold him back to end up in a small town in nowhere or let him move on to
have a real future. She needed to tell
him she didn’t love him and never did or he would never leave.
That crushed John (her too to have to say
those words was like a knife to the heart.)
She thought it was the right thing to do. You make sacrifices for those you love. When Rachel went off to school after that
horrible day it ripped her heart out.
She soon met her now ex-husband and thought she really loved him now she
knows that was not the case at all. Soon
after she quit school to work two jobs full time in order to pay for him to go
to law school and once he got in to this high power firm he dumped her
basically. He never saw the children
because the firm he worked with had him abroad more than in the states, hell it
was few months before he saw the twins and 9 months before he saw their third
son. Fast forward to her youngest being
5 years old and the twins being 7 years old and its summer now. That’s the bad part, Rachel has gotten
herself a job, and she no longer wants money from her ex for herself for the
children fine but not for her. The bad
part is that it is starting in a week not in September like she thought and she
has no one to watch the children.
That left her needing a sitter. Now she had become best friends with John’s
mom and her boys thought of her as grandma.
She had told her she knew of someone and would bring them by. While she was out gardening a truck drives
into her driveway. She can’t see who it
is due to the sun. When they get out and
speak she nearly drops to her knees and all she can think of is murdering John’s
mom. Because there stood John himself
right there in her front yard, the thing is she never thought she would see him
again. She ask what he’s doing there and
he responds by saying his mom said she was in need of help and a nanny and he
was there to help. That in fact he had a
proposition for her where she could help him too.
See how these two maneuver a past that at
first neither wants to deal with.
Eventually, they have no choice.
See how they react to the hurt, pain and time lost to a misunderstanding
and communication glitch. I give this book 5 stars. Provided by Net Galley.
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