He's an ancient kraken with a depression beard. She's a professional organizer with a fear of the ocean. It's a match made in... well, a damp basement.
Marina Chen lives her life by a strict system of labels, color codes, and dry land. As a professional organizer, she can tame any mess?except her own bank account. So when she's offered a triple-rate job at a remote seaside manor, she takes it. Even if the house is literally dripping wet.
The client? Arthur Trench.
He's a reclusive, brooding artist who hasn't left his property in fifty years. He's also a Kraken. Yes, the "release me" kind. But currently, he's mostly releasing heavy sighs and ignoring the fact that his living room is flooding.
His problem? His twin daughters, Coral and Pearl, are water elementals who turn into puddles when they get emotional. The house is rotting, the barriers are failing, and Arthur is drowning in a mess he can't fight.
Marina hates water. She's terrified of the ocean. But she refuses to let a house defeat her. Armed with industrial dehumidifiers and a label maker that means business, she declares war on the damp.
But as she dries out the manor and organizes the chaos, she finds something unexpected beneath Arthur's ink-stained exterior: a gentle, lonely father who is desperate to do right by his girls.
Marina can fix the house. She can organize the clutter. But when Arthur's ancient past comes calling to take his daughters away, Marina realizes that some storms can't be labeled... they have to be weathered together.
Don't Tease the Kraken is the second book in the Nanny for Nightmares series. It features a sad-boy squid dad, a heroine who loves Tupperware more than people, and a guaranteed HEA that will leave you breathless.
