by: Karen Booth
Series: Forever
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Single mom Claire Abby is the glue that holds her dad and her college-bound daughter together, so when her journalism career takes a nosedive, she has to save it. Now the biggest interview of her life hinges on convincing a notoriously private man to spill his secrets. If only he wasn’t one of the sexiest guys ever…
Tall, square-jawed Christopher Penman isn't simply a famous Brit. He was Claire's celebrity crush when she was a teen. In person, he’s as achingly handsome, utterly charming, and completely nerve wracking as she feared. Claire has no choice but to ask the tough questions, the ones he’s avoided for a decade, but Chris isn’t talking…he’s flirting.
An improbable friendship forms. Then there’s a kiss…and an invitation…and ultimately, nights Claire once only dreamed of. But as they grow closer, she learns that Chris’s pain runs deep. When his heartbreaking history repeats itself, will Claire risk it all to save her love with the man she could never forget?
Claire Abby is a freelance music writer for various magazines/blogs. Claire’s biggest break to date just fell into her lap. Claire has the opportunity to get an exclusive interview with her teenage heartthrob, Christopher Penman, of the group Banks Forest. If things go well, her interview will land her and Christopher on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Christopher Penman is the former guitarist for the 80s rock band, Banks Forest. Christopher has had a tumultuous private life. He is notorious for being very private about his life and hates the media as much as a shark loves fresh meat. Chris has been burned in the past and no one wants to know what has really happened. Let’s face it, scandal sells magazines and pictures are always worth a thousand words, even when the pictures are misleading and deceiving. Chris is attempting a second solo comeback and needs to get his name out there, but he plans to do it on his own terms.
For Chris, his interview with Claire started out just being vague. He had every intention of just playing around with her and not giving her too much information. But as Chris suddenly feels a connection with Claire, things changed and he shares with Claire things he has NEVER talked about before.
Claire is a single mother to a seventeen-year-old girl. Her love/lust for Chris puts her career in jeopardy. She is powerless to fight the connection she has to Chris. Secrets are revealed that could destroy her relationship with Chris and everything she’s worked so hard for professionally.
Over the course of the book, you’re able to ride along with Claire and Chris on their journey from being adversaries, to their friendship, to their love for each other. Also along the way, you will experience their heartbreak and anguish.
Christopher and Claire are characters that you will immediately fall in love with. Having my own teenage crush, I can totally see myself in Claire’s shoes. Possibly doing all the same things she does. One can only hope that for all of us girls out there who once had the same dreams, that Claire will find her happy ever after and allow us to live vicariously through her.
**Received a copy of the author and voluntarily reviewed it.**
Rating: 5
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Back in March 2013 Karen did one of the coolest things for me. She did a character interview with Christopher Penman. The result was AMAZING! You can read the interview here.
Karen Booth is a midwestern girl transplanted in the South, raised on ’80s music and repeated readings of Forever by Judy Blume. Karen writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction, almost always about the dreamy guy you never thought you’d get. Her stories are full of breathless kisses, tearjerker moments, complex family dynamics, and more than a few things she’s glad her grandmother never read.
When she’s not creating hunky fictional men and the women who test them, she’s listening to everything from Otis Redding to Duran Duran to Superchunk with her college-age kids, honing her Southern cooking skills (she makes some mean collards), or sweet-talking her astoundingly supportive husband into whipping up a batch of cocktails.
Karen is co-founder of the 4500+ member Seasoned Romance Facebook group, devoted to the promotion of romance with characters 35+. She has been a finalist for RT Magazine’s Series Romance of the Year, RT Magazine’s Gold Seal of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award (NERFA), the Booksellers’ Best Award, and the Holt Medallion. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages.
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Thanks for the review. I am adding this one to my wish list.
ReplyDeleteIt was a really good book.
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