When I first met her, I was just her brother's best friend and a hockey player. Then I was the secret fling who broke her heart. Now I'm a single dad ... and her new boss.

On the best and worst night of my life, I left the perfect girl alone in a hotel room, confused and angry. Since then, Emery Granger has ignored me, despite the fact that our families are friends and I would do anything to have a second chance with her.

When we're thrown together again, it's in the worst way possible—with me needing an emergency nanny, and my daughter immediately attaching herself to the last woman I got to third base with, making Emery the reluctant best candidate for the job.

No matter what happened in the past, I will always put being a good father first. My feelings for the nanny? Irrelevant. Impossible.

Which is a challenge, because the nanny herself? Irresistible.