I fear that Tessa Bailey's editors have decided she is too big to fail. I generally enjoy nanny romances but this was a was a bizarre book which I think ultimately comes down to it reading like an unpolished draft. There was a lack of care taken witht the heroine's trauma

(stalking/kidnapping/confinement by an ex-hookup)

, both in the construction of her character and the narration, as well as by the hero even after he finds out the details of why she doesn't trust easily. Tessa Bailey is clearly doing a "he falls first and hard" thing with these Big Shot heroes which I usually love, but this hero just seems to bowl straight through whatever boundaries she tries to establish, because he's decided they are endgame.

It's an easy enough one-day read but I wouldn't expect too much. I hope Tessa's coming novel is a bit more thoughtful and consistent in its characterisation.