Today is the release of Ann Aguirre's sizzling and stunning new adult romance I Want It That Way, the first book in the 2B trilogy! I was lucky enough to receive an early copy of I Want It That Way, and trust me, you DO want it this way! I'll be posting my review later this week (and since I'll be seeing Ann on Thursday, there will be a giveaway involved!!), but right now, I'll just say that this is one of the books that has sold me on the validity of the new adult genre. This book is sexy, sweet, thoughtful, and really unique. I know I'm counting the days until book two, As Long As You Love Me, is released! Also, BACKSTREET BOY TITLES FOR THE WIN!! Seriously, the 90s teeny-bopper fangirl in me is squeeing because of the BSB song references, and the 26 year-old me is squeeing because Nadia and Ty's chemistry is insane! READ THIS BOOK!
Author: Ann Aguirre
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Genre: new adult contemporary romance
Status: book 1 in the
2B trilogy
Summary: Nadia Conrad has big
dreams, and she's determined to make them come true—for her parents'
sake as well as her own. But between maintaining her college scholarship
and working at the local day care to support herself, she barely has
time to think, let alone date. Then she moves into a new apartment and
meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B…
Daniel Tyler has
grown up too fast. Becoming a single dad at twenty turned his life
upside down—and brought him heartache he can't risk again. Now, as he
raises his four-year-old son while balancing a full-time construction
management job and night classes, a social life is out of the question.
The last thing he wants is for four noisy students to move into the
apartment upstairs. But one night, Nadia's and Ty's paths cross, and
soon they can't stay away from each other.
The timing is all wrong—but love happens when it happens. And you can't know what you truly need until you stand to lose it.
Teaser:
Read the first chapter of I Want It That Way HERE!
Excerpt:
“Where are you from?”
Ah, an actual question. That means I can ask one back.
“Nebraska, toward the South Dakota and Wyoming side, if that helps.”
“I’ve never met anyone from there.”
Michigan was a long way from home. “I usually get ‘not in Nebraska anymore’ jokes, and then I have to decide if I’m going to remind them that’s Kansas or play along.”
“What do you usually do?”
“Play along.”
“You don’t like conflict, huh?” He sounded normal tonight, as if talking to me wasn’t an unpleasant chore anymore.
That was a relief since I’d come to look forward to these moments with him so much. More, maybe, than I’d like to admit.Right. Friends. I distracted myself by considering his question. “Not if it can be avoided. I’m not what you’d call pugnacious, no. But I like to think I don’t back off important issues. What about you?”
“No.” His voice was bleak and quiet. “I don’t. Even when I should.”
Wow, that took a dark turn.
If I could’ve jumped onto his patio without breaking an ankle or waking Sam, I’d have been down there like a shot. The distance between us seemed intolerable, and from the knot in my throat, I didn’t see how I could live another second without touching him, finding out if his hair was as soft as it looked or what he smelled like. I wanted him in a way I never had before.
In high school, I had a boyfriend who played basketball, and we broke up when I left the state. It was a rational decision, and I didn’t miss him that much once I was gone. My freshman year, I went out with a lot of different guys, one date here, two dates there, but I never clicked with anyone enough to focus on them. Sometimes there were hookups with no strings, no expectations. Classes, friends and work seemed a lot more important. The intensity of this attraction was foreign and frightening, if exhilarating. I might already be backing off if I had the faintest sense that Ty was jerking me around on purpose.
Wish he didn’t make me feel this way. It’d be so much simpler if I could friend-zone him.
I realized I still hadn’t touched his verbal grenade. “We all have things we’d do differently in hindsight.”
“What is it about you?” he asked in a wondering tone.
“Huh?”
“You make me…better. Calmer.”
“Like a sedative?” I snickered. It was the least sexy thing a guy had ever said to me, including a junior high squeeze who said my face wasn’t actually that bad.
He laughed, too, a sheepish sound. “I didn’t mean it like that. Just…I’m worried pretty much all the time that I’m dropping the ball somewhere, about to face-plant, but when I come out here and hear your voice, everything backs off like ten steps. I can breathe again.”
Check out books 2 and 3,
coming soon to a bookstore near you!
Pub Date: September 30, 2014
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Genre: new adult contemporary romance
Summary: Most people dream about
getting out of Sharon, Nebraska, but after three years away, Lauren
Barrett is coming home. She has her reasons—missing her family,
losing her college scholarship. But then there's the reason Lauren
can't admit to anyone: Rob Conrad, her best friend's older
brother.
Football prowess and jaw-dropping good looks
made Rob a star in high school. Out in the real world, his job and his
relationships are going nowhere. He's the guy who women love and leave,
not the one who makes them think of forever—until Lauren comes
back to town, bringing old feelings and new dreams with her.
Because the only thing more important than figuring out where you truly belong is finding the person you were meant to be with.
Pub Date: November 25, 2014
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Genre: new adult contemporary romance
Summary: Some people wait decades
to meet their soul mate. Courtney Kaufman suspects she met hers in high
school only to lose him at seventeen. Since then, Courtney's social
life has been a series of meaningless encounters, though she's made a
few close friends along the way. Especially her roommate Max Cooper, who
oozes damaged bad-boy vibes from every pore.
Max knows about
feeling lost and trying to move beyond the pain he's been on his own
since he was sixteen. Now it's time to find out if he can ever go home
again, and Courtney's the only one he trusts to go with him. But the
trip to Providence could change everything because the more time he
spends with Courtney, the harder it is to reconcile what he wants and
what he thinks he deserves.
It started out so simple. One misfit
helping another. Now Max will do anything to show Courtney that for
every heart that's ever been broken, there's another that can make it
complete.
About the Author:
Ann
Aguirre is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling
author and RITA winner with a degree in English Literature; before she began
writing full time, she was a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and a savior of
stray kittens, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house
across from a cornfield, but now she lives in sunny Mexico with her husband,
children, and various pets. Ann likes books, emo music, action movies, and she
writes all kinds of genre fiction for adults and teens, published
with Harlequin, Macmillan, and Penguin, among others.
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