The Nanny's Cruel Summer

Cleo Marsh is running from a ring she can't return. Jonah Rourke is running from a house he can't sell. Somewhere between the fog and the cold-water swims, his daughter Birdie starts speaking again — not to Jonah, to Cleo. Five weeks of circling, one kiss on a sailboat in a squall, three nights with the windows open, and then the nine a.m. ferry arrives with Cleo's fiancé on board and Jonah's heart closes like a tide gate. She leaves him on the island with the piano and the sand. Two months later Birdie is silent again. So Cleo comes back — uninvited, ringless, with nothing to offer and no intention of apologising. A moody, humid single-dad billionaire nanny romance about the summer that refuses to end.