Hired to Stay Away: A Forbidden Single-Nanny Romance Where the Contract Said Nothing About This

She wrote seventeen clauses to keep things professional. He signed every one of them. Neither of them anticipated the coffee.

Lila Renny doesn't do dependency. After years of building a self-sufficient life around her six-year-old twins, she knows exactly what she needs: a competent, professional, contract-bound nanny who understands the word boundaries. She even wrote clause seventeen herself — twice — just to be sure.

Ren Holbrook has spent seven years doing this work cleanly. He knows the difference between caring for a household and needing one. He has a notebook. He has a system. He has very good reasons for keeping the professional frame intact.

What he doesn't have is an explanation for why, on day twenty-two, a coffee appears outside his door. Or why he can't stop noticing when her office door is open.

By the time the kitchen starts feeling like the most important room in the world, the contract is the only thing standing between them — and they both know it stopped fitting weeks ago.

Hired to Stay Away is a slow burn, emotionally rich forbidden romance about two people who built very good walls and then made the mistake of trusting each other inside them. Told in dual close-third POV, with six-year-old twins who say the truest things at the worst possible moments, a custody situation that forces Lila to call the wrong person first — and a three-clause document that replaces seventeen.

For readers who love: — Slow burn that earns every degree — Forbidden employer/employee tension with real stakes — A heroine who grovels specifically and doesn't centre her fear — Single parent romance where the children are people, not props — Domestic intimacy that becomes something neither character planned for

No cheating. No manufactured drama. A proper, earned happy ending — and a kitchen that finally feels the right shape.

If you've been waiting for a forbidden romance that takes its time, trusts its characters, and delivers an ending that actually cost something to reach — Hired to Stay Away is the book you pick up tonight.

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E-bog: 16. juni 2026