{"id":128,"date":"2026-01-05T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:37:14","slug":"the-au-pair-affair-tessa-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/the-au-pair-affair-tessa-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Au Pair Affair &#8211; Tessa Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0The Au Pair Affair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong>&nbsp;Tessa Bailey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/big-shots-series-tessa-bailey\/\">Big Shots<\/a>\u00a0#2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0A sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She\u2019s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her tween charge isn\u2019t the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to\u2026well, everyone except Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him how. But as boundaries are slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her parents back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed, and Tallulah does the \u201cright\u201d thing\u2014breaks her own heart and walks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Burgess knows it\u2019s for the best\u2014he\u2019s too jaded, with too much baggage\u2014a chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever after with Tallulah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Covers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/199531938._SY180_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" style=\"width:100px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave reviews, opinions and thoughts in the comments. Remember to be respectful. Any hateful or -ism comments will be deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0The Au Pair Affair Author:&nbsp;Tessa Bailey Series:\u00a0Big Shots\u00a0#2 Summary:\u00a0A sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny&#8230; Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She\u2019s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9,33,31,4,32,3,8],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-shots-tessa-bailey","tag-big-shots-series","tag-grumpy-sunshine","tag-hockey","tag-modern-romance","tag-single-dad-nanny","tag-sport-romance","tag-tessa-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookdragonsparadise.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}