She's a young English teacher who left her job because of a scandal. She leaves town and gets a job as the hero's housekeeper. He wants her, and he lets her know it in a persistent non-aggressive way that has her climbing up the walls with wanting him too (but fighting it, because she's a virgin and she's very concerned about her reputation because small-town schools are conservative). She fights the attraction because she knows that for her it's love and it needs to have a future but for him it's lust and he's never marrying again. Once his niece and nephew are thrust upon him, he wants the heroine to be a live-in nanny as well. Once he meets an ex of hers, he feels pretty possessive and a little insecure about her feelings for him. All of a sudden, marriage to the heroine is looking pretty sweet to him.
I really enjoyed this book, I liked both the characters and the tension between them was edge-sharp. The book touched on a few extremes: virgin, man completely refusing to consider marriage, but their relationship came off as natural for them, true to their feelings. I didn't like the fact that the heroine had been willing and eager to seduce another man (her ex) but wouldn't get in bed with the hero: she explained that by saying she's not a prude, but with the hero she avoided bed because it meant marriage/love to her.
Rating: 4/5 stars, a great romance between two people
