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Audio will be released April 26th and be narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Mackenzie Cartwright, featuring Connor Crais and Shane East!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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Dear Fiona,<\/strong><\/p>\n I hope this letter finds you well\u2014and by well, I mean significantly less infuriated than you were yesterday. I\u2019ve wanted to continue our conversation from the night we met, but there are so many things I can\u2019t say or do, now that I\u2019m your professor.<\/span><\/p>\n As an anonymous letter writer, I can give you some idea of what I have planned for us, once the year is over. As an author, I can share my work in progress with you. Not for you to critique but to show you how much you mean to me.<\/span><\/p>\n When you\u2019re done reading this page, destroy it\u2014and then write me back. Don\u2019t sign the letter. Don\u2019t put a return address on the envelope. Mail it from a random mailbox.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yours in problem solving,<\/span><\/p>\n Me<\/span><\/p>\n P.S. I still think you\u2019re wasting your talent on that historical romance novel.<\/span><\/p>\n P.P.S. I really wanted to push you up against the door and kiss your beautiful, angry face. I will. One day.<\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/p>\n Dear Emmett,<\/b><\/p>\n Your handwriting is almost as terrible as your mood swings, and it would have been my instinct to destroy that letter even if you hadn\u2019t ordered me to.<\/span><\/p>\n If you show me your work in progress, I will critique it.<\/span><\/p>\n I am currently still too infuriated to write about all the other feelings I have for you.<\/span><\/p>\n Expect another letter soon.<\/span><\/p>\n Your problem and your solution,<\/span><\/p>\n Me<\/span><\/p>\n P.S. I still think an overpaid, overrated, overly handsome bestselling author of thrillers has no business teaching creative writing at a prestigious New York university.<\/span><\/p>\n P.P.S. To my great horror, I really wanted you to push me up against that door and kiss my angry face too. I understand now that your appalling way of treating me in class has been overcompensation, but I don\u2019t forgive you for it. I\u2019ll kiss you again anyway. One day.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add to your Goodreads TBR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 uniquely romantic and beautiful stars!<\/b><\/p>\n OMG, what a book! A unique, funny, and beautifully romantic story that is so cleverly written, I laughed and swooned the whole way through and I freaking loved it!<\/p>\n Emmett Ford is the bestselling author of thriller books that have also been made into a movie series. He should be riding high on his success, but he is lonely and living a life of solitude since the death of his fianc\u00e9 a decade ago. He is also completely stuck when it comes to writing his next book – he has no inspiration, and he desperately needs it.<\/p>\n Fiona is a new arrival in NYC. She has traveled from California to attend a creative writing course in the big city, and is writing her debut novel \u2013 a historical romance. She is living large and loud, sucking every bit of life she can get from her new and exciting adventure.<\/p>\n Emmett and Fiona run into each other at a diner in the middle of the night. They are both pretty much smitten at first sight, and they spend the evening wandering the city, exploring, talking and sharing experiences, including one helluva hot first kiss. It\u2019s the kind of meeting that romance readers dream about \u2013 full of chemistry, flirting, epic banter, a sense of \u2018realness\u2019, and a whole lot of laughs as these two strangers connect in a way that neither of them were anticipating.<\/p>\n But their burgeoning romance comes to a screeching halt when it turns out that Emmett is the teacher of one of Fiona\u2019s writing courses at university. Their beautiful love story is stopped even before it had a chance to start, and they are both crushed, but their feelings for each other are still very much alive, and so we get this deliciously forbidden flirtation that is so much fun, and continues to sizzle with chemistry.<\/p>\n \u201cI would really love if it you wouldn\u2019t be so rude to me in class.\u201d They come to realise that they are unable to cut contact completely, so they take up writing letters to each other, sharing their pasts, their present, and their filthy fantasies for the future, in the only way they can, while being as cold to each other as possible in real life (with a few very-welcome slip ups here and there). At the same time, they are both writing their novels, and we get to read chapters from both of their books, watching their characters and their stories be influenced by their feelings for each other and their changing relationship. It all really cleverly ties together to give a fantastically well-rounded view of everything that is going on with them, and OMG, the feels!<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t make you wait for me.\u201d Everything builds beautifully, and there is this epic sense of anticipation as we wait for something to happen with these two. And when it does\u2026 OMG, it\u2019s beautiful! So right, and so real and so well-deserved. I was desperate for these two to find a way to be together, and it was everything I was hoping for.<\/p>\n \u201cI want you, Fiona. I want you, and I\u2019m not asking you to wait for me. I\u2019m yours. Now.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I love these characters so much. They are both loveable and relatable, strong yet sometimes awkward, and as much as I loved their dynamic and flirty banter, their inner monologues were just as entertaining, and I laughed so many times at the thoughts running through their heads.<\/p>\n I\u2019m becoming a woman for him, I think. The sexiest, most intoxicating version of myself. This must be some kind of reproductive evolution. My body wants to make babies with him, so it\u2019s making me do all the porny things I\u2019ve never been inspired to do for anyone else. It\u2019s so freaking funny, but at the centre of it all is a beautifully heartfelt romance that had me in a world of swoon as these two opposites come together, completing each other in a way they didn\u2019t even realised they needed, and fighting for the future that they so desperately want, and I loved every moment of it.<\/p>\n Kayley Loring is one of the most exciting new-to-me authors that I have discovered in the last year, if you haven\u2019t read her books yet, you really need to get onto it, because she is such a wonderful storyteller.<\/p>\n I adored this one – 5 stars!<\/p>\n An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Instagram<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0FB Reader Group<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Website<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Audio Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0BookBub<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Love Interest by Kayley Loring is a fave for 2021, and it’s live! 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\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m rude to you. I\u2019m just not as nice to you as you\u2019d like me to be.\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand why you can\u2019t be nice to me \u2013 it\u2019s not my fault I\u2019m in your class. I tried to get out of it.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m aware of that.\u201d
\n\u201cThen what else can I do, Emmett?\u201d
\n\u201cDon\u2019t call me Emmett.\u201d
\n\u201cVeronica calls you Emmett.\u201d
\n\u201cVeronica doesn\u2019t need a spanking.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cBut you want me to? You want me to wait for you?\u201d
\n\u201cI have no right to ask you to.\u201d
\n\u201cIf you asked me to, I would. If you told me that you wanted me\u2026\u201d Her voice is trembling, and it\u2019s killing me. \u201cIf you want me to be yours, I will wait for you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nI am pretty sure my blood content is about ninety percent sex hormones right now. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAbout the Author<\/b><\/h4>\n
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Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn\u2019t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she\u2019s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It\u2019s an adjustment she\u2019s happily getting used to.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Wildfire-e1586692132278.png?resize=437%2C166&ssl=1\")
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