The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny

A staffing agency sends the narrator to work one week as a short-term nanny for a single father. The agency calls his seven-year-old daughter an angel. On the first morning she turns out to be a demon in a red tutu and glitter slippers, and the job looks far harder than the easy extra cash it was meant to be.

The father is Maddox Holiday, the boy she had a crush on in high school. He never knew she existed. He has stayed away from Montana for years because he runs a billionaire empire, and now he is her temporary boss.

The week also includes the Holiday family's annual Christmas Eve party, which adds more pressure to a job she already expects to be miserable. She tells herself she can manage anything for seven days, especially with this paycheck on offer.

This is a Christmas romance told in the first person, with a comic tone. It pairs a nanny and her employer with a past that only one of them remembers, and it runs on a short, fixed deadline: one week, one difficult child and one holiday party.