Nanny for the Santas by Cassie Cole

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three guys, a five-year-old, and a bar.
It’s not the start of a joke. It’s my life this Christmas.

Grayson Cage is a Sexy Santa.
Yeah, I know. Mall Santas typically aren’t very hot.
Yet after seeing what he looks like under his costume?
The tall, dark, and handsome man is all I want for Christmas.

But Grayson isn’t just a juicy piece of eye-candy.
He needs me to watch his daughter while he’s working at the mall,
And sometimes at night when he’s managing his bar, the Thirsty Moose.
But he’s not the only one giving me flirty smiles…

Ethan is the charming blond bartender. Quick with a joke and a perfectly-mixed cocktail, he instantly makes me feel at home at the bar.
Then there’s Cole, the huge, grumpy bouncer. This guy looks like he spends all his time pumping iron in the gym, not checking IDs at the front door. But even though he’s about as rude to me as possible, I can tell there’s a secret he’s hiding from everyone…

I spend my days playing with Grayson’s daughter, Max.
And my nights getting to know these three swoony men.
Will I get everything I’ve ever wanted this Christmas?
Or will the four of us get coal in our stocking?

NANNY FOR THE SANTAS is a sizzling reverse harem love story filled with humor, suspense, and a whole lot of holiday cheer. HEA guaranteed!

Nanny for the Santas

Holiday romance times three!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘

The heroine: Piper – she is 31 years old and works at the sunglasses hut in the local mall. It turns out that an English degree is only valuable if you want to write or teach (preaching to the choir here – I got my English degree years ago and now I work in IT). Piper isn’t too happy about the way her life has gone. She is bored with her job and at a loose end with her path in life. Though she didn’t mind watching the odd hot guy that happened to walk by her kiosk.

The Heroes:
Grayson – He is a single dad who owns a bar called the Thirsty Moose and takes on being a mall Santa during the holidays for extra money. He used to use the mall daycare to watch his daughter Max and at night she hung out in the back of the bar and was watched by him and his two best friends.
Ethan – he works nights as a bartender and the Thirsty Moose to counteract the boredom of working in a cubicle all day. He wants to own his own bar someday and is a big flirt.
Cole – he is part owner of the bar with Grayson, also a huge, but grouchy bouncer. He goes somewhere every day but won’t tell anyone what he is doing.

The Story: Piper was on her lunch break one day and since the employee cafeteria was full, she sat down at the desk in the closed down daycare room, since the mall no longer offered day care. When all the sudden a hot guy in a Santa suit comes in with a little girl named Max. He said his ex-wife just dropped her off and he couldn’t leave his work without disappointing all the kids in line to see Santa. He gave Piper $40 and took off before she could explain that she didn’t run the daycare.

After Piper spent the day playing with little Max, Grayson noticed a big difference in his daughter who had been pretty silent since he divorced her mother and got full custody. The child was talkative and excited and even ate better than she usually did, so when Grayson found out that Piper had been fired from her job at the Sunglass Hut, he asked her to be his nanny for the next month while he worked as the Santa.

The attraction between Grayson and Piper is immediate though of course, he thinks he should keep things professional since she is such a good nanny for Max. Piper is very interested though and once she gets to know Ethan and Cole better, she starts to feel something for each of the guys. The characters are great, I liked Max and Piper’s mom was pretty funny as well. Though it did take quite a while for Cole to come into the story much. But when he did, it was more than worth the wait.

One thing I like about Cassie Cole’s reverse harem romances are that each one is so different. In some, the three guys have shared a woman in the past and are looking for another situation like that. In some they are just friends who happen to fall for the same girl, and she can’t decide between them. There is always some sort of conflict and some suspense. This one wasn’t as technical as some of the others I have read but it had a great holiday story.

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