Playing  (English, Paperback, Abrams Melanie)

When Josie, an anthropology grad student, is unexpectedly offered a job as the nanny for Tyler, a six-year-old with a penchant for trivia and an obsession with counting, she innocently agrees. Though Josie doesn’t need the job, she cannot help but accept the offer—there’s something about Tyler’s mom—her beauty, her confidence, her resemblance to Josie’s mom—that draws Josie in.

She soon finds herself a part of their family, sharing an intimacy that soothes Josie’s estrangement from her own parents, but also breeds betrayal when Josie falls for Mary’s crush, Devesh. An Indian surgeon, ten years her senior, Devesh pulls Josie into a dizzying world of sexual domination and submission that speaks to her deeply hidden desires. It is a world of games that fast becomes serious, forcing Josie to confront her past.