title: Emma Dilemma and the New Nanny
author:  Patricia Hermes 
description: Author Patricia Hermes has lots of ideas for Emmas dilemmas after raising five children of her own. She lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, and is a frequent speaker at schools and conferences around the country.<P>Illustrator Abby Carter has drawn all of her life. When she was eleven, she and her grandmother had a card business: Abby drew, and her grandmother sold. In college she studied art, but also liked science and nutrition, and wished there was a way to combine it all. Several years later, after she was married and had a daughter, she and her husband founded Fresh Samantha, the juice company, which fulfilled that dream. In addition to her graphics for Fresh Samantha, she has illustrated many picture books and chapter books for children. She says that she loves to draw odd characters, and hates to draw straight lines. Abby lives with her husband and two children in Connecticut.
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  _**INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE**_
  
   _ **The Nobleman and the Nanny**_
  
  Emma Pyrmont has no designs on handsome Sir Nicholas Rotherford—at least not
  for herself. As his daughter’s nanny, she sees how lonely little Alice has
  been. With the cook’s help, Emma shows the workaholic scientist just what
  Alice needs. But making Nicholas a better father makes Emma wish her painful
  past didn’t mar her own marriage chances.
  
  Ever since scandal destroyed his career, Nicholas has devoted himself to his
  new invention. Now his daughter’s sweet, quick-witted nanny is proving an
  unexpected distraction. All evidence suggests that happiness is within
  reach—if only a man of logic can trust in the deductions of his own heart.
  
   _ **“You seem uncommonly outspoken, for a nanny,” Nick said. “Why would that
  be?”**_
  
  Miss Pyrmont straightened. “I suppose because other nannies fear for their
  positions too much to tell the master when he’s behaving like a fool.”
  
  Nick stiffened. “