Book Title: Now is Our Time
Author: Jo Kessel
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 2014
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
Synopsis
A story of
second chance love set between London and San Diego.
Thirteen
years ago Jonah Kennedy was one of America’s top tennis players, whose
six-foot-three bad-boy California looks won him hordes of female admirers.
Thirteen
years ago Claire Jackson, a fiery, aspiring artist from London, was the woman
who stole his heart.
But the two
held a secret which tore them apart and sent Claire running back to England.
They tried
to move on. Claire married, had a child and became a successful TV personality.
Jonah married, had a child and settled for life on the road.
Thirteen
years later and both divorced, their paths cross again. Their attraction is
even deeper - they feel destined to be together. Claire’s jealous ex, however,
has other plans.
Can Claire
and Jonah hold on to their second chance at love or will their past secret
haunt them for ever? After all, thirteen is only lucky for some....
Meet the Author
Jo qualified as a lawyer before moving into journalism,
working for the BBC and reporting and presenting for ITV on holiday, consumer
and current affairs programs. She writes for several national UK newspapers
including the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Express and was
the anonymous author of the Independent's hit column: Diary of a Primary School
Mum. Now is our Time is her third novel.
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Excerpt
Jonah’s back was to her and she took the
opportunity to observe him for a couple of minutes transfixed, watching his
muscular arms at work, picking up the tongs and turning the chicken thighs and
burgers over. She’d always loved every glorious inch of his body, warts, scars
and all, but if she had to choose her favourite part, it would be his strong,
sportsman’s arms. She could feel her breath quicken. She wanted to touch them.
She needed to touch them. She tiptoed barefoot towards him and caught him
unawares, pinning her stomach against his back as she ran her hands up and down
his triceps. Half a minute later he spun round to face her and they stilled,
their foreheads touching as the tips of their noses performed a languorous
Eskimo kiss.
“Do you know what?” he said, his forehead still
glued to hers.
“What?”
“If it’s possible, I think you’re more beautiful
now than you were when I last knew you.”
“Rubbish.”
“It’s not ‘rubbish’,” he mocked her accent,
wearing a playful smirk on his face. “It’s the truth. I think thirty-seven must
be the perfect age for a woman. You’re coming into your sexual and physical
peak.”
He trailed his hands to the hem of her black
vest t-shirt and wormed his way underneath, stroking her bare back before
teasingly slipping his hands towards her front, tickling the sides of her waist
as his fingers continued on a northbound trajectory, lightly grazing her
breasts. Claire’s breath hitched.
“Do you have any idea what you do to me? What
you’ve always done to me?” Jonah asked.
Claire shook her head, but really she did have a
very good idea. And if she could have taken her mind off his travelling fingers
she might have found the courage to admit that he made her feel as nobody else
had done and how her body ached for him. She floated her hands from his biceps
to the back of his neck and pulled his mouth urgently to hers, whimpering as he
parted her lips with his tongue, her whole body tingling with desire.
“If we wait a bit longer,” Jonah whispered with
their mouths still meshed, “it will be even more sensational.”
Claire was pretty sure he wasn’t talking about
the chicken. She nodded in agreement, pulling away with a smile.
“I think we should eat then,” she suggested.
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Thank you so much for sharing my new release today. I fell madly in love with my hero Jonah Kennedy as I wrote this and I really hope readers feel the same way about him too! Have a great weekend. Jo
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