![]() ![]() Remembering those days fills me with inner exhaustion and absolute bliss at the same time. ![]() How many years did we spend, my three children and I, unwinding after a day of toddler, preschool or primary school adventures, by reading for an hour and a half together, cuddled up in a mess of arms and legs and stacks of books for different tastes and levels of understanding? "Mum, do you remember when we read aloud each night?" ![]()
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![]() Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. And so Hannah-against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. ![]() When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. ![]() ![]() But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. ![]() ![]() Little i is a symbolic representation of the mathematical imaginary number, a little hat-tip to the self and a small but extremely important alphabet who keeps wanting to assert herself as the writer spins a witty and playful pictorial fable around her. Little i is the latest instalment from Namjoshi’s imaginarium-a clever, whimsical and “stroppy little character" who is actually a runaway computer programme from an earlier book, Beautiful And the Cyberspace Runaway. “They wanted Aditi to come to them and so I wrote Aditi And the Thames Dragon." It was often such odd twists that caused the series to grow, and the places that Namjoshi visited, along with the things she liked-computers and the cyberspace, for example-wound their way into the books. There I was in front of a sea of brown faces in a school in London and all the children were thrilled to see me because I looked like them and I had also written a book about a character who was just like them," she recalls. ![]() The second Aditi book also happened by chance after Namjoshi went for an event to the Blue Gate Fields Junior School in London, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things suck enough in his life he doesn’t need this. Still, the knowledge rolls inside him: nothing is ever going to be the same. ![]() He answers his mother’s mindless chatter meant to fill the space in the car. He looks away at the slightest hint that his father might look back at him. Simmering in the backseat of the car from Logan Airport, Milo pouts and keeps careful eyes on his father. Miles Graham is eight years old when they move to Santuit, Massachusetts. Thank you for helping to make my dreams come true. Any resemblance to real persons, either living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Ĭover and Interior Illustrations by Nelli I Names, characters, and places are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Summer Di Laurentis is thrown in his path, all blonde hair and explosive energy, a drama-magnet with no desire to shy away from the center of attention, he is both painfully drawn to her and equally pained to be around her. ![]() Basically he’s a quiet guy who prefers to fly under the radar despite his skills on the ice. He has no interest in pursuing a career in hockey after college and, when not in practice or balancing a double major in Fine Arts and computer programming, spends most of his time sketching or coding for his own RPG (online role playing game). Sure, he’s a talented hockey player and has the expected physicality of an athlete (tall, brawny, and covered in tattoos), but he’s a not-so-secret nerd. Kennedy is one of those for me.Ĭolin Fitzgerald – Fitzy – is not your typical jock. The NA genre can be a real mixed bag, at least for this reader (and I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that way), but there are a few authors that rarely let me down when I do decide to dive in. However I would totally recommend backtracking anyway, because the Off-Campus novels are just great. While there are returning characters and a few events referenced, as well as some pre-existing dynamics from the previous series, The Chase can be read as a standalone. Elle Kennedy returns to the new adult hockey romance world with The Chase, a spinoff from her Off-Campus series, that is set to launch at least two (please more) books into the much loved setting of Briar University. ![]() |