Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, May 28, 2024

Format: ebook

Pages: 384

Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

A new Regency romp of a series, about governess who believes in cultivating joy in her charges, clashes with the children’s uncle who hired her, only to find herself falling in love.

When the flighty older sister of former naval captain, Henry Kincaid, decides on a whim to accompany her explorer husband on an expedition to Egypt, he finds himself unwittingly left in the lurch with her three unruly children and her giant, mad dog. With no clue how to manage the little rascals, a busy career at the Admiralty that requires all of his attention, and no idea when his sister is coming back, Harry has to hire an emergency governess to ensure that everything in his ordered house continues to run shipshape. In desperation, he goes to Miss Prentice’s School for Girls prepared to pay whatever it takes to get a governess quick sharp to bring order to the chaos.

Thanks to her miserable, strict upbringing, fledgling governess Georgina Rowe does not subscribe to the ethos that children should be seen and not heard. She believes childhood should be everything that hers wasn’t, filled with laughter, adventure, and discovery. Thankfully, the three Pendleton children she has been tasked with looking after are already delightfully bohemian and instantly embrace her unconventional educational ethos. Their staid, stickler-for-the-rules uncle, however, is another matter entirely…

My Review:

Thank you St. Martin’s Press for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: enemies to lovers, the nanny/governess
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Georgie is hired by Harry as a governess to his nieces and nephew when his sister leaves them with Harry to go off adventuring with her husband. Harry has an important job with the admiralty, so he can’t look after them all day. When Georgie starts working for him, the two clash and seem to be total opposites, but the more they get to know each other, the more they learn that they actually balance each other well.
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I really liked this book. The tension as well done, the conflict made sense, and I really loved Harry and Georgie as their own characters. They were super cute!