Received in exchange for a honest review.

The story of Ned and Jemima is fun, sweet and sassy at times. But it is about love and family.

Ned you love from the beginning. He is a single dad of 3 and boy is he a busy guy. He changed his life so he could be more with his children and it isn’t easy. Each day he is with his family, he knows he made the right decision but his heart is broken and the farm needs work. Work that he cannot accomplish alone if he wants to make it succeed and be there for his children. The guy is a sweetheart who has been through alot and trying to do right by his family. Swoonworthy from the beginning. His time with his children is just to to precious.

Jemima is a good character as well. Sassy and sweet a great combo for Ned and to heal his heart and help his family. She was a model who worked hard and wanted more. She wanted to do what she love and that is be with children and teach them. Only small towns talk and it isn’t always talk that rings true or is helpful. For Jemima it hurts her. So when she sees Ned and sees his predicament an idea forms. More the idea came from his precocious and just adorable little girl when she puts a sign up for a mommy.

Only things get mixed up due to this being a small town and what was to be a simple solution becomes more complicated. Now Ned and Jemima are married and trying not to fall in love. But you can tell that there is chemistry between them. So much it sizzles.

what do I love about this story? The way Ned is faithful to his wife but also finds room in his heart for Jemima and she heals him but also makes his family whole. How Jemima is so wonderful and caring with Ned’s children that is it like they are her own. I was sad to see the fear Ned had into letting love in his world because he was truly afraid to lose someone else but also he I think felt he was being unfaithful even though he wasn’t. I love the family aspect how the children, Ned and Jemima make up a unit that loves and cares. how Ned’s family took Jemima in and opened up to her. They accepted her like no other and it was wonderful to see.

I loved the way the romance was organic. It wasn’t instant and the children were taken into consideration. They got to know each other and see how they fit into one another’s world. I love that we see both their thoughts because it gives a complete picture of what is going on in their minds and hearts.

The story is sweet, adorable, at times sassy and just wonderful. The children are involved in all aspects and family is a core component in this story. But so is the love and respect Ned and Jemima have for one another. A love and respect that scares both but in the end they embrace and create a wonderful family and forever with one another.

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.

Very enjoyable book! Great characters and a beautifully crafted story will give you a great escape. Brush up on your Aussie terms with the glossary in the back of the book to really enjoy it.

Jemima “Jemmy” Smythe has been living the life of a model in high fashion but that life is getting old. She's ready to settle down back in her hometown and put her teaching degree to use. When the job she's hoping for at the local school falls through she takes a job as a nanny for single dad Ned McCormack. It doesn't take long for things to really get complicated!!

I highly recommend this one.

His Outback Nanny” was an easy read for me. As i read I could see this book as a movie on the Hallmark channel. This is something to read if you enjoy a fast read that keeps you reading until the end. When I read there were parts where I wanted to yell at the characters that they weren’t making the right decisions. I’m a hopeless romantic at times so I hoped for a good outcome at the end of the book. A love story that I’d recommend to others. I wanted to make sure things ended the way that I wanted them to. I received an advanced egalley from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This series is about four people who were brought up by their grandparents on a ranch near Prickle Creek in Australia after their parents were killed in a car accident. The pairs of siblings have parted to work in various locations around the world until their grandmother calls them home. Now they’re taking turns to spend time on the family ranch to see if they wish to take it over. This story focus is on Jemima Smythe, who was working as an international fashion model but who dreams of teaching in a community like Prickle Creek. When she doesn’t get the job, she is asked for help by a precocious young lady who is trying to advertise for a new Mum! That young lady introduces Jemmy to her father, Ned McCormack, and to her two siblings.

Ned is a widower who grew up in Prickle Creek and has moved back to his parent’s ranch with his three children but is struggling to cope with the children and getting the ranch working again. He offers Jemima the opportunity to be the children’s nanny but then fate intervenes and, for reasons you need to read to discover, he asks her to become his temporary wife of convenience! There’s chemistry between the two but this is supposed to be a marriage with no kisses or falling in love . . . Can they stick to that arrangement or will love find a way into both their hearts?

This is a heartwarming romance and great addition to the series. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way and, as usual, things certainly don’t go smoothly for this couple and the children! The community of Prickle Creek prove to be heroes and there’s a dramatic event to help bring love to everyone in this enchanting story. I’m looking forward with eager anticipation to reading the next story in this series which I presume will be the romance for the fourth of the siblings but still hope there will be further stories based in this fantastic community.

I requested and received a copy of this novel, via NetGalley. This is my honest review after choosing to read it.

This is another great read from Annie, but I really liked this one. The plot may sound familiar but set in the outback and with these two characters along with the family, it's a great story and not like everything else you've read. Not by a long short. So do we give Ned the benefit of the doubt or has he sunk himself for the last time? read the book and find out, I promise you won't be disappointed!!

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

I received an arc from Netgalley. What a beautiful love story this was. You could truly feel the connection between Ned and Jemima. While they tried to deny their feelings for each other true love definitely won in this story. 4.5 stars

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.

Annie never fails to deliver a sweet romance. I loved the push and pull between the leads.

Sweet story set in Australia. Some stories “say” they are set in Australia, but no one would be able to tell. This story is charming and reminds me of one of the old Harlequin Australian romances I read as a young teen.

The characters fit that type of story, too...a handsome widower and a former supermodel turned kindergarten teacher meet and fall for each other.

This is one of those stories that leaves the reader with a warm feeling.

I really enjoyed this story, it was a cozy read, deliciously romantic and predictable, with charming characters who treat each other well. Besides the widowed hero – father of three great children – and the heroine, a more implausible character, there’s a cast of secondary characters who are three-dimensional and likeable too.
Annie Seaton is a new author to me and I really liked her writing style, the way the romantic relationship developed, the restrained way she wrote the first sex scene, the dialogue, the Outback setting.
I just felt that the premise of Ned and Jemima’s arrangement was a bit absurd (as the decision to not cuddle the kids). The reasoning and discussing about it between the main characters showed that the narrator was aware of it too, but it really didn’t convince me. Still, I loved these characters and surely I’m looking forward to reading more of Annie Seaton’s books.

Even though this is the 3rd in the series I had no trouble reading this as a standalone story.

This was an easy to read story with good writing and great characters. I liked the idea of the business arrangement marriage and enjoyed watching the families relationships grow in small country town Australia. Totally enjoyable.

Gorgeous Aussie model returns home and wants to be a teacher. She can’t get a job because people don’t believe she means to stick around. So she suggests to a hunky neighbor with three adorable children that they have a phony marriage for a year so she can impress people that she will be sticking around and he gets child care and can borrow money from her to revitalize his family farm.

Yeah, we know where this is going. It’s sweet and predictable despite the unlikely plot. But it was still a sweet, enjoyable read if you don’t mind a familiar romance-novel plot.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Jemima had been a runway model for several years and now wanted to return to her roots, the small town in the Australian outback where she had grown up. She wanted to be a teacher and settle down into a slower life.

Ned was trying to raise three children alone. His wife had died in a car accident several years earlier and he didn't really want to experience the kind of grief and pain that he had felt when she died, so he just muddled through. He had left the big city and come to live on his family's farm in the outback hoping to make a good life for he and his children.

Unfortunately, he couldn't get a loan to do the things he needed to do. There was one possibility: if he and Jemima could have a marriage of convenience, she could act as the collateral for his loan to get him started. No one else needed to know that it was a marriage in name only. That could be their secret. They had an exit plan, too. In a year, they would get an annulment and go back to their separate lives. What could possibly happen in a year to change that plan?

I liked this story mainly because it was a sweet romance with a believable family dynamic. The story didn't have much foul language and no descriptive sex scenes. I loved the romance of the story without the specific details of their intimate encounters.

I was gifted a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This is book 3 in a series but it did stand alone. I didn’t feel like I needed to read the others to follow along. This story was heart warming and I enjoyed it a great deal. I laughed and cried a little but really enjoyed it. I just was let down at the end a little bit. It just kind of felt a little bit rushed.

Totally unconventional story but an enjoyable read. Jemima is home from a glamorous career in modeling to pursue her passion of teaching. Only thing is no one is taking her serious and therefore she can't get hired. ENTER the adorable children of Ned McCormack who are adorable in this book. When one is looking for a new mommy and decides Jemima is it Ned is taken aback at what to do. Realizing that her clout allows him the loan his farm needs, Ned offers Jemima a plan to marry him so she is seen as serious in her new life of settling down and teaching and he gets his loan. Told you- a little odd.

That odd discomfort leads to much awkardness in the new McCormack house- especially at bedtime and convincing talkative children that your marriage is real. The problem with this fake arrangement is that Jemima is loving her new position in the home- well except for the cooking and uncomfortable sharing of the bed. Ned is more like a yo-yo and one moment seems to be enjoying everything and maybe wanting it to be real (like Jemima secretly desires) and the next he's ready to end the deal and send Jemima packing.

So, will Ned decide to send Jemima on her way or give in to the feelings he is starting to develop. There are so many sweet and funny things in this story. The children added greatly and were adorable.

I received a copy of this story from NettGalley for a honest review. I find Annie Seasons writing style engaging.Love the story ser in the Outback of Australia. Love the story of the model Jemima and this widower father his 3 kids and a farmer I just would love for the storyline to be a bit shorter and for Ned to decided faster on his fate so that the story could flow more it got a bid borring sometimes but this set all and all not a bad read

I really wanted to like this story. I liked the beginning at least. The writing was really great at first and I was really loving this story. I liked the characters and I could see their connections. However, the storyline was my problem. It made no sense at all. I mean zero, none. And I am sorry I had to quit reading, these were not normal people and I could not understand the motivation.

As I said it started out great and had Jemmina ended up as a nanny, I would have understood and loved this story but she is NEVER the nanny. They get married, for convenience sake but she is never an employee. And this is where it suspends from reality, she doesn't even do it for money, she does it so people will stop seeing her as a super model and as more of a part of the community. I would have understood if she took the nanny job to show people she is serious about being normal, but marriage to an almost perfect stranger with three children and no money is involved. No way. It made no sense and she tells her family the truth and no one says to her "Are you crazy?" not one person says that.

Here is why Ned does it, and I understand his motivation, he is drowning. He loved his wife and he moves to his family farm because he needs a place for him and his 3 kids but he has NO help at all so most days he is taking care of the youngest. So he needs a loan from the bank to hire help. But the bank says no to him. Until his adorable daughter finds Jemmina and asks if she will be their new mommy. And thats how the rumor of her being his fiancee start. But to get his alone they have to marry and marry fast, and Ned he needed help fast. He does it to save his children and family from poverty. He is a desperate man.

Meanwhile Jemmima does not want to be a super model. She is home on the farm and has graduated as a teacher, so she goes for a job interview. But everyone still sees her as a model and so she does not get the job. She doesn't even need money, she just wants to work with kids and she says yes to marriage because she thinks she needs to show she is serious about living a hollywood free life, so she can get a job teaching.

It made no sense and I really could not finish the story. I just felt the motivation on her side made no sense. She marries this guy for a year, so she can get a reliable reputation. I mean marriage is very serious business and she jumps into it not out desperation but over a reputation.

Totally crazy. I seriously felt like she was one of those too stupid heroines. And while the writing was pretty good, the plot made NO sense at all.

These time jumps are jarring.

Oh, I do love little Gwennie. She's a little mommy.