Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call the Klutina Lake home. But one man, in particular, stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon, a quiet, intense sword craftsman, whose very existence forces her to question whether her heart wants to return to Washington at all.
I have now learned in the worst way possible that I should never pick up a book simply because of the cover. I read this book for a very specific reason and if it hadn’t been for that reason, I probably would never have picked this up. I guess this is to say that Debbie Macomber and I are not meant to be. I‘m better off just enjoying her work as Hallmark movies. If I’m being very honest, this book could have been so good as it had a really great premise. I think that had the story been a little bit longer and started at the beginning of Josie and Palmer’s relationship, I would have really loved it. But we begin the story knowing that the Josie and Palmer have spent the past six months together and have slowly fall in love with each other. But instead of showing us how they fell in love, were told how they fell in love and it was all just very flat. There is no reason for us to care about either of these characters or their romance. Josie mentioned quite often how there had been so many moments where Palmer had made her feel loved and wanted, which was great. But the fault lies in the fact we were just hold these moments existed instead of being shown at these moments. They fell in love between the months of May and October which gave us a six month period in which we could’ve seen the love blossom. I mean, I want to know what it was like for this big city chef to move to Alaska to work at a lodge! What were he struggles? What kept her from leaving Alaska right away? How did she handle falling in love with a man who lives in a way that’s so different from her? I think that hadn’t been done well, I would have really rooted for Palmer and Josie to end up together. There are so many conflicts that arise with this concept that I think could have been explored exceptionally well but weren’t.
A widowed father of two little girls. The beautiful nanny he's hired to raise them. A forbidden romance unlike any other. A Nordic King is the newest standalone royal romance from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Pact and The Swedish Prince.
When I first applied for the job I thought it would be like all the others: working as a nanny for an aristocratic family. Then I got the job and found out how wrong I was.
Now I’m the new nanny for two adorable little girls who happen to be princesses.
Their father is the widowed King of Denmark.
And my new home? The royal palace in Copenhagen.
Adjusting to my new life isn't easy but the hardest part hasn’t been the girls who still grieve over the loss of their mother.
It’s their father.
Cold, mysterious and moody, with an icy stare that seems to penetrate your soul, King Aksel may have hired me to take care of his daughters but he wants as little to do with me as possible.
Yet the longer I share these palace walls with this man, the more that I’m drawn to him. His chiseled face and sexual swagger are only part of the package. It’s in the long, intense glances at the dinner table, the way we’ll brush up against each other in the halls, the rare glimpses of the man deep inside, like the sun passing through clouds.
But no matter how I feel about him, we can never be together.
You think it's bad enough being in love with your boss?
Try falling in love with a king.
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