~Synopsis~
Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she’s determined to make them come true. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local day care to support herself, dating’s the last thing on her mind. 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, the last thing he wants is noisy students living in 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.
"A tender, sweet, and sexy story about how life—and falling in love—can never be planned."
—Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wait for You
~Teaser~
~EXCERPT~
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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.”
~Review by Jodie Rae~
I rated I Want It That Way THREE AND HALF LEAVES!
Not all love stories end happily. Sometimes they just end.
In
I Want It That Way, we meet Ty, a twenty-four year old single father of
an adorable four year old Sam. Sam's mother wanted nothing to do with
him, so Ty is struggling to balance work,
school, and parenthood all by himself. Luckily, he has some helpful
family when times get rough... but he doesn't have much time for
dating.
Nadia meets Ty when she is moving out of the dorms with her friends into two-story apartment complex and finds herself living above Ty. Ty is drop dead handsome and Nadia qucikly becomes intrigued with him. Ty is straight with her about not wanting anything serious, but they end up being unable to resist each other and quicky fall into an intense friends with benefits relationship.
Nadia meets Ty when she is moving out of the dorms with her friends into two-story apartment complex and finds herself living above Ty. Ty is drop dead handsome and Nadia qucikly becomes intrigued with him. Ty is straight with her about not wanting anything serious, but they end up being unable to resist each other and quicky fall into an intense friends with benefits relationship.
The
story is fairly straightforward about a single father and a hard
working college student, who meet, and have an attraction, and they
explore where it goes. I will point out that I got a little bored with
the story. It kept me entertained but I was ready for the story to
end. Speaking of ending, I felt like the ending was a bit rushed and it left me wanting more. All in all, I
found the story to be such a sweet love story. The pages flew by, due
to Ann Aguirre's easy going writing style. It was a nice way to spend a couple
of hours!
~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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