This was a book club read for me, and I wasn’t necessarily expecting to like it as much as I did. I mean – bonking the nanny is such a stereotypical trope, and even with the twist (this nanny used to perform on OnlyFans, and her new employer turns out to have been someone she interacted with there—a lot) I wasn’t sure the DILF trope was going to be my thing. But the combination of sweetness and spice in the story worked for me. Cassie, the nanny, is working her way through grad school; Aiden, the dad, is an executive chef who’s new to full-time parenthood (his daughter is nine, but she’d spent more time with her mom and aunt – until her mom’s sudden death the year before the book opens). Cassie and Aiden are both immediately attracted to each other but try to tamp their attraction down—neither wants the other to see them as creepy—but there’s a lot of tension, which only gets worse when Cassie realizes that Aiden was one of her OnlyFans subscribers. And not just any subscriber, but one she’d done private shows for, and one she was falling for … until he ghosted her at a planned in-person meeting. Cassie freaks out and decides she can’t let him find out who she is, but this gets harder once they confess their mutual attraction and start getting it on. Drama of various kinds ensues, until Cassie gets some sense talked into her by Wanda (her 72-year-old friend/former neighbor/mom figure—she’s estranged from her own parents).
I like the way we get some chapters from Aiden’s POV interspersed with the chapters from Cassie’s, and I like the way their OnlyFans history is worked into the book in the form of screenshots showing their past exchanges on the site. There were a few typos and some clunky spots that could have benefited from closer attention from a copy editor, but overall this was a really quick and fun read for me.
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