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Now
is our Time by Jo Kessel
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: September 12, 2014
Hosted
by: Book Enthusiast Promotions (http://bookenthusiastpromotions.com)
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....
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.
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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