Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He scorned her future as a trained nanny, spending her life caring for other people's children. But was his proposal any more enticing? All he wanted was a substitute mother for his young daughter and nothing more - apparently he'd forgotten how to love! Perhaps the exotic skies of Portugal's Algarve and a nanny with stars in her eyes could help the cynical widower remember....