The Best Medicine: A Slow Burn Small Town Romance (Teachers' Lounge #5)
Smartypants Romance, Krysta Dearson

Aside from her kids, the only other joy in her life comes from reading romance—which no one knows about. Not her ex-husband, not her judge father, and certainly not the twenty-four-year-old valet driver who keeps giving her flirtatious looks every Sunday at her required weekly brunches with her father.
Jace Vargas is an aimless twenty-four-year-old with an eclectic résumé that includes valet driver, Lyft driver, and freelance clown—so he’s a regular barrel of laughs. But it will take more than a bunch of hot air to get to know proper Polly Alberton. The thirty seconds he spends valeting her car each Sunday are his favorite seconds of the week. And it’s not because she tips well. It’s because her car stereo plays whatever audiobook she’s been listening to, right up to the time her Bluetooth disconnects. She’s a gorgeous, buttoned-up paradox, cloaked in layers of mystery . . . and he desperately wants to find out what’s underneath.
When Polly hires Jace to be her kids’ nanny, those layers start to shed one at a time. And throughout the course of a summer, along with a six-year-old spitfire, a brave ten-year-old, some magic tricks, and laughter, they both might find the things they’ve wanted most—with the help of each other.
‘The Best Medicine' is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #5 in the
Teachers' Lounge series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.