When the temperatures near 100 degrees, summer has officially arrived. A perfect "beach read" to enjoy and celebrate the hot weather is Sariah Wilson’s CINDER-NANNY. Despite its title, this delightful novel doesn't contain actual magic, but the romance between two unlikely individuals is clever and touching. And while both are devoted to the people they love, the families they come from are anything but normal.

"Despite its title, this delightful novel doesn't contain actual magic, but the romance between two unlikely individuals is clever and touching."

Diana Parker is a fraud. In a way, she takes after her mother, who is spending decades in prison after scamming a series of men out of their life savings. Diana has tried to be different, and her fraudulent activity is only due to the most dire circumstances. And she feels guilty every minute --- or almost. She pretended to have numerous detailed qualifications in order to get a very well-paying job as a nanny in Aspen. However, we learn that Diana is not proficient in French, is not an expert skier, does not have an advanced degree in child development, and in no way is a math teacher. She does like children, though, and her sister, Alice, has two kids she adores. So maybe that's enough?

Why does Diana break the promise she made to her sister never to lie (as their mother did)? Because Alice desperately needs surgery; through a series of horrible events, it is not covered by insurance. Alice will die without the operation, hence Diana's desperate attempt to do whatever is necessary to get a hold of $40,000. And that's exactly what the job pays for three months of her time.

However, what Diana doesn't count on is that the people she works for, the Crawfords, are wonderful and treat her like family. It only makes her feel worse that she lied to them. But when she ends up attending a charity dinner wearing Sheila Crawford's dress and slightly too-big shoes, she meets a member of British royalty, Griffin Windsor, and the two click. Diana is determined not to allow the hormones and the attraction they feel to flourish because every relationship she has had in the past has ended badly.

It turns out that Griffin, an earl (for heaven's sake), is only in Aspen for a few weeks. He will be returning home after that, and Diana can't imagine any way that she would continue to be a part of the kind of life he leads. Griffin doesn't know that Diana is really a nanny and not just a friend of the Crawfords, as she had implied. He also isn’t aware that she comes from a disreputable family, doesn't know who her father is, has a mother in prison, and even sports a "phony" name (her mother made it up, thinking it sounded classy). Diana does know that in no real world does the prince marry the nanny. Even though he's not really a prince (but pretty close).

Wilson cleverly plays on the fact that while Diana can borrow Sheila's dresses since they are the same size, Sheila's shoes are a bit large, and they tend to fall off Diana's feet (à la Cinderella). Wilson's ability to weave a sweet tale of two people, each of whom needs what the other has to offer, is magical. Will Diana be able to trust Griffin with her heart after a lifetime of being hurt? Will Griffin find the strength to buck tradition --- and his very rigid grandmother, who also controls the family money --- to follow his heart? There are no sad endings in this fairy(ish) tale of love.