Jemima Smythe is over the world of fashion. But when her dream of teaching falls through, Jemmy is determined to show her hometown she’s ready to put down roots. Three beautiful and boisterous kids in need of a nanny offer her an opportunity to prove just that. But their smoking-hot dad, Ned, offers her another–become his wife, as a matter of convenience only. Ned McCormack is at his wit’s end. … wit’s end. A single father to three kids, he quit the city and moved home to the Australian Outback in order to spend more quality time with his family. Unfortunately, the farm needs a lot of work. Just when he’s ready to give up, help comes unexpectedly in the form of a supermodel mistaken as his wife-to-be.
Not a bad arrangement, if only they can stick to the rules of their strictly-business marriage–no kissing and absolutely no falling in love allowed.
Each book in the Prickle Creek series is STANDALONE:
* Her Outback Cowboy
* Her Outback Surprise
* His Outback Nanny
* His Outback Temptation
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HIS OUTBACK NANNY is a standalone read with a HEA. Set in Australia this story centers around the family ranch that has been in the family for generations. The grandmother summons the 4 grandkids to the ranch and informs them that they will have to take over running the ranch or she will sell it.. Not wanting to sell but not wanting to ranch either, they all take their turns running things.
This story is about the fashion model sister. She is really tired of that world and way of life and she is more than willing to come home. she applies for a job as a school teacher but she doesn’t get it. Then she hears about a friend of her cousin’s looking for a nanny for his 3 children. She applies. He makes her a better offer. Marry him in a marriage of convenience. She agrees and moves in. This is their love story. It is a very delicious read. I loved it and definitely recommend it.
I was not paid for this review. I am not a writer nor do I know one. I am not kin to this author. I am a reader and this is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less. 10/22/18
My first book for 2018 and what a pleasure it was to read.
Jemima comes home for the simple life but can she leave the international modelling world behind?
Childhood friend Ned needs help on his farm, he is a struggling widow with three kids.
Can a fake marriage work or will their chemistry foil their plans?
These two were a great couple and I enjoyed the town and it’s country folk.
I look forward to reading more in this Prickle Creek series.
3.5 stars–HIS OUTBACK NANNY is the third instalment in Annie Seaton’s contemporary, adult PRICKLE CREEK clean, romance series focusing on a once tight knit family of cousins (Lucy Bellamy, Jemima Smythe, Sebastian Richards, and Liam Smythe) torn apart by the accident that caused the death of their three mothers. This is former fashion model/kindergarten teacher Jemima Smythe, and single father Ned McCormack’s story line. HIS OUTBACK NANNY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
SOME BACKGROUND: When their aging grandparents called the cousins home, Lucy, Jemima, Sebastian and Liam wanted nothing to do with attending to the family farm but a deal was reached and each cousin would take a turn managing the farm, never intending to fall in love.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Jemima and Ned) HIS OUTBACK NANNY follows the fake marriage trope between neighbor’s Jemima ‘Jemmy’ Smyth and Ned McCormack. Following the death of his wife, widower and father to three young children Ned McCormack returned to Prickle Creek to take over the family farm. With little experience and even less financial backing Ned struggles to make a go of it, on his own. Rejected by the bank for a loan, Ned will run into Jemima Smythe, his neighbor and former best friend’s younger sister, and the woman who is about to solve both of their problems.
Jemima Smythe is a former runway fashion model who has come home to live a peaceful and quiet life as a kindergarten teacher but her previous life in the public eye finds our heroine on the outside looking in when she is rejected by the local school board for her lack of experience and her history of moving around. Seeing an opportunity, Jemima makes Ned an offer he can’t refuse, an offer that will break our heroine’s heart as Ned sticks to the ‘marriage in name’ only arrangement throughout their entire relationship.
Once again, be forewarned, because the author lives in Australia, HIS OUTBACK NANNY contains expressions of slang and language terminology that may not be familiar to North American readers. The author adds an index of terminology at the end of the book.
HIS OUTBACK NANNY is a bit of a frustrating read in that Ned is unable to let go of the past. His relationship with Jemima is mostly platonic and in the end he will push Jemima out of his life, and the lives of the children she has grown to love. Ned’s inability to see Jemima anything more than a nanny and housekeeper is heartbreaking on so many levels, a heartbreak that is experienced by Jemima herself, and the children he will be forced to raise alone. Ned’s constant reminders that their time is drawing to an end is depressing and neutralizes any hope for a happily ever after. In this, the relationship feels cold, unloving and purely business like-there is no sexual chemistry or palpable sexual attraction.
What makes a family? Love, understanding and sacrifice. Annie Seaton makes sure HIs Outback Nanny has all three. Ned and Jemima are thrown into a situation that is convenient but not easy. Especially when emotions become involved. Add three mischievous kids and sexual attraction and what was once simple becomes anything but. Sparks fly in the Australian Outback with a charmingly heartwarming journey into love.
His Outback Nanny by Annie Seaton
Prickle Creek #3
Jemima “Jemmy” Smythe is a model who has made a name for herself when she is called home by her grandmother. She is tired of the model’s life and ready to settle down in a smaller community – preferably where she spent time growing up with her Grandparents. At this point in the story her cousins Liam and Lucy are settled in with partners and her cousin Seb is expected home soon. With Liam and Angie engaged she feels it is time to move out and move on to the job she craves – being a teacher. Well, that doesn’t work out but she does fall into a job as a nanny for Ned McCormack’s three children. Ned has returned to the family farm near Jemima’s grandparents’ farm and is finding being a single widowed parent and doing all the ranch work more than taxing. With Jemima’s help perhaps things will improve?
This is a marriage of convenience story that has Ned unwilling to love and lose again. The two have definite chemistry but with Ned guarding his heart and holding himself aloof most of the time it is not an easy road they will travel. They do, of course, get their happily ever after and there is a sweet end to the story. Definitely a good book that left me wondering just what Seb’s story will be when he finally gets back to the ranch.
Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for the ARC – This is my honest review.
3-4 Stars