Beatrice Bradshaw

The world’s worst nanny for Scotland’s cutest kid, crushing on his ultra-grumpy dad? Disaster with a capital D.

Lily Campbell is the worst. Ask the summer camp that sacked her because of the marshmallow incident. Ask the neighbour’s daughter who still has nightmares from three hours of babysitting. And you should definitely ask the man she dumped the night before their destination wedding in a Scottish castle.

The. Absolute. Worst.

So imagine Lily’s face when a seven-year-old boy finds her in his dad’s shed in the Highlands and decides to adopt the Canadian runaway bride on the spot. It’s nothing compared to her face when his single dad turns out to be the hottest grump she’s ever laid eyes on.

Cailean Kincaid needs a nanny for his son Alfie to get through a career-saving contracting job. Lily doesn’t do kids (for their own good), but she’s hiding from the wedding fallout, desperate to start over. Three months of being an unqualified emergency-nanny in Thistle Glen until autumn ends? There’s only so much damage even someone like Lily can do in that time.

Too bad she doesn’t count the damage to her own heart.