Some men need to learn the hard way…Doctor O-for-Awesome Owen Bennett is all about fixing broken things and being responsible. His motto? Rules are helpful boundaries. Rules can be fun. But when he’s temporarily put in charge of three precocious kids, chaos reigns and his list of household rules gets tossed out the window. Except one. Under no circumstance will he get involved with the kids’ … involved with the kids’ tempting new nanny.
After four years flitting around Europe, waitress/dog-walker/au-pair Gracie Cooper returns home to Bounty Bay for her brother’s wedding. Working to pay off some of her crippling university debt while she’s there makes it a win-win situation. She plans to play in the sand and surf with three cute kids, indulge in a harmless flirtation with her sexy-stick-in-the-mud boss, then follow the sun overseas again come end of summer. Oh—and if she and Owen accidentally take their attraction farther than they should? Well, some rules are made to be broken…
TEACH YOUR HEART is the third story in Tracey Alvarez’s Bounty Bay series, set against the stunning backdrop of Aotearoa, New Zealand. If you like heartwarming, sexy and sweet small town romances, you’ll love sharing the journey with these authentic men and women struggling to find their special someone. Welcome to Bounty Bay, where the reward of true love is a price only some are willing to pay.
Download your copy of Teach Your Heart today and uncover the secret lives and hidden passions simmering in New Zealand’s sultry, subtropical Far North.
Intended for mature 18+ aged readers who enjoy their feel good romance on the sensual side.
Praise for the Bounty Bay series!
“Reading a book by Tracey Alvarez is like taking a mini vacation to my imagined little happy place in New Zealand.”~ Spellbound Book Reviews
“Tracey now is included among some of my fav authors from the Southern Hemisphere. Rosalind James and Natalie Gayle fans will love Tracey’s books.”~ Retailer review
“Tracey Alvarez has written a finely crafted, well written romance. Sexy and delightful and full of family values.”~ The Book Date
“Her writing style will keep you hanging on to every word and feeling the characters’ heartbreak right along with them.”~ Rach Lawrence Books
Don’t miss any of the Bounty Bay books!
Book 1: Hide Your Heart. Featuring Lauren and Nate.
Book 2: Know Your Heart. Featuring Savannah and Glen.
Book 3: Teach Your Heart. Featuring Gracie and Owen.
Book 4: Mend Your Heart. Featuring Natalie and Isaac.
Book 5: Break My Heart. Featuring Vanessa and Sam.more
Loved it
This series together more friends and family. Owen lost his sister and brother in law when they drowned while on holiday and left 3 children behind. His parents have been their guardians for the last three years, but his mom had to have triple bypass surgery so he took over care for them, but he couldn’t keep a nanny. Gracie came back to New Zealand after living in Europe, plus her brother Glen was marrying Savannah. When ends up in Bounty Bay after leaving her father’s place she ran into little William & Charlie. She ended up being offered to be their au pair after meeting their uncle at the ED to see about Will’s arm. But she didn’t expect to fall.
This was a story of two people with very opposite backgrounds. Their adult lives were very different than their upbringing, but, they managed to find common ground while caring for Owen’s nieces and nephew.
Gracie was able to tap into the fun loving, relaxed part of Owen that allowed him to not only open up to the kids, but to Gracie as well.
Owen and Gracie’s friends helped her to recognize that she was more than a flighty female.
This was a pretty light hearted romance that was sweet, sexy, and funny. Definitely low level angst.
I voluntarily read and reviewed this Advanced Reader Copy.
Open Your Heart To Love!
Gracie, another member of the dysfunctional Cooper family (we met her brother Glen in Book 2), had been bouncing around Europe but has now found her way back to her childhood playground, Bounty Bay. Here she meets a group of children whose parents died tragically and whose uncle is also wrestling with his grief and feelings of loss. Although the interrelationships of characters from one book to the next provide a small town feel to the series (and there is continuity of action in the grander arc), each romance in the series stands alone beautifully. Narrator Rose O’Toole has come fully to grips with a light Kiwi accent which imparts the romance of New Zealand without burying us in the extremes of pronunciation variants, and convincingly acts the children with equal expertise as the lovers and their parents and grandparents, bringing to life this delightful novel. Each is better than the last!
I love all of Tracey Alvarez’s novels, but I would have to say that Teach Your Heart is one of her best works. This is the third in the Far North series. I loved Gracie’s spontenaiety but also her huge heart. Owen is swoonworthy – more so because of the way he takes care of his nieces and nephew. All the scenes with the kids are so realistic and true to life. I have three kids of my own and I could identify with many of the situations. I loved Owen’s “doctor talk” – I work in healthcare, and I had a few chuckles when he interspersed medical terminology into the dialogue (“makes my heart beat arrhythmatically”). This is just an all around great book. It can be read as a standalone, but you do yourself an injustice if you don’t read the first two!
The more people you met from Bounty Bay the more you fall in love with the place and the stories that take place there. Gracie just arrived to New Zealand without work, money and a future planned and she metsGlenn and his two orphans nieces and his nephew, that are staying with after the major surgery his mother is been through. Glenn takes Gracie as his nanny to help him with the kids.will the y fall in love and have a happy future together. The audiobook is awesome
Love, love this author so I’m probably jaded, but another good story with vivid believable characters. Spot on with the kids. Different type of romance story. Loved it.