I came to Buttonwood to nanny a little girl, not to end up married to her billionaire father.

Grant Russell is a grumpy, gorgeous single dad who runs his farmhouse like a boardroom. I’m the nanny who drives him nuts with cookies and glitter.

Then Grant’s family decides Lily would be better off without him, and a custody fight turns vicious. To appear stable in court, Grant proposes we get married. I say yes before my brain catches up.

One courthouse signature later, I’m wearing his ring and sharing his name and his bed.

Between late-night chores and Harvest Festival rehearsals, barbs turn into secrets until the lines blur. When he calls us “my girls,” my heart stops pretending this is temporary.

Then a reporter threatens to expose my past, and the case starts to crumble.

I can run like I always have. Or stand beside him.

Because for the first time in my life, love isn’t what I’m afraid to lose, it’s the reason I could stay.

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