Being the best pâtissier in Paris doesn't come easily. I've worked day and night in order to make The Sweet Spot into what is today: the best. But with that comes a reputation for being ruthless in the kitchen. I expect perfection from anyone who enters. When my publicist suggested I teach an exclusive class, I jumped at the chance, ready to give them a healthy dose of reality before sending them packing. Or at least that was the plan...until Charlotte came strolling into my kitchen, thawing my stone-cold heart and exposing my gooey center. I wanted to break her and send her back to the States with her tail between her legs, but instead, she sent my carefully-constructed walls tumbling to the ground. I know nothing worth having in life ever comes easily…and Charlotte is a challenge I more than want to conquer.

After a devastating loss, I traded business suits for my passport and a backpack. Traveling the world and living life to its fullest, before coming back to Edinburgh. Refusing to let anyone get too close for fear of being unable to survive another broken heart. When an alluring young girl requested a tour of Edinburgh, the sadness in her voice calls to me, reminding me of the man I once was. Instead of giving her the tour she wanted, I decide to show her life is meant to be enjoyed, not put on the back burner. I planned to teach Ava there was more to life than rules and schedules, but instead, she ends up teaching me that there’s one thing I can’t live without - her.

With a little extra luck, anything is possible. When I opened my shop, Lucky Charms, I never imagined it’d become the first place tourists would stop looking for their own bit of Irish luck in all the wrong ways. I’m told I should be ashamed of myself for taking advantage of people, but I can’t be held responsible for how gullible they can be. If I wasn’t doing it, then someone else would be. Or at least that was how I felt when Rory came rolling into my shop, looking for an easy way to cure her broken heart. I should’ve told her to turn right back around and head out the way she came in, but instead, I was the one caught under her spell. Falling in love is never guaranteed...but I hope that just this once, luck is on my side.

When my brother and his wife asked me to be my nephews’ guardian if something ever happened to them, I thought it was far into the future. Not three months later. Being the sole provider for these boys is frightening beyond anything I could’ve ever imagined. Even more so than building my vineyard from the ground up in less than a year. Now that I have more money than I know what to do with, I have come up with the perfect solution: hire a nanny. I expected the agency would send over a woman that looked more like my mother, but instead got a spitfire. The last thing I needed was another complication in my life, but Maya is everything I never knew I needed in my life. With a little help from my nephews, we are ready to turn their nanny into their new mommy.