<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I was hired to take care of his daughter not fall in love with her football star father.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Taking a nanny job wasn't part of my post-college plan-but neither was falling for my gruff drop-dead gorgeous NFL-star boss and his sweet daughter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Romel Watson is the definition of emotionally unavailable. His heart has been locked away since his wife passed three years ago and he's made it painfully clear there's no room for anyone else.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the more time I spend with them the more I see the cracks in his armor. I love his daughter like she's my own and Romel? The way his eyes linger on me when he thinks no one's looking ignites a spark I can't ignore.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He keeps me at arm's length clinging to a past he can't let go of. I'm willing to share his heart with her memory-she'll always be part of their lives. But I refuse to settle for being an afterthought.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now I have to make the hardest decision of my life: keep fighting for the family I've come to love or walk away before I lose myself completely.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Protecting the Boundary is a steamy single dad/nanny sports romance. This is book 8 in the LA Wolves Football series but can be read as a standalone.</em></p><p></p>