Chasing Wishes by Nadia Simonenko
Publication date: Winter 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Synopsis:
“I wish I didn’t have to go home. I wish I was someone else — someone with a future…”
For sixteen-year-old Nina Torres, it feels as if life is nothing but a dead end. Despised by her rich classmates and afraid that she’ll become just like her drug-addicted mother, Nina’s future seems to get dimmer every day.
There is one bright spot in her life though…
Sitting beside her one night, the only person in the world who cares about her makes a promise. No matter what happens — no matter how much Isaac’s wealthy family disapproves — he and his girlfriend Nina will be together forever.
Fate plays a cruel trick on Nina, though, and a visit from Child Protective Services the next morning turns Nina Torres into Irene Hartley, a woman with a future but who will never see her beloved Isaac again.
Nine years later, a blind and incredibly handsome young entrepreneur hires Irene to be his personal assistant. Terrence Radcliffe reminds her so much of Isaac that she can hardly believe her eyes, and she’s falling for him fast. Irene knows that fairy tales don’t come true, but she allows herself one last wish. She wishes that she could finally say goodbye to Isaac and let herself take a chance on Terrence.
What she doesn’t know is that Terrence is also searching for someone: a shooting star who streaked through his life nine years ago, and he won’t give up until he finds her…
Chasing Wishes is a powerful contemporary tale of lost love and wishes come true, recommended for ages 17+ due to adult content.
For sixteen-year-old Nina Torres, it feels as if life is nothing but a dead end. Despised by her rich classmates and afraid that she’ll become just like her drug-addicted mother, Nina’s future seems to get dimmer every day.
There is one bright spot in her life though…
Sitting beside her one night, the only person in the world who cares about her makes a promise. No matter what happens — no matter how much Isaac’s wealthy family disapproves — he and his girlfriend Nina will be together forever.
Fate plays a cruel trick on Nina, though, and a visit from Child Protective Services the next morning turns Nina Torres into Irene Hartley, a woman with a future but who will never see her beloved Isaac again.
Nine years later, a blind and incredibly handsome young entrepreneur hires Irene to be his personal assistant. Terrence Radcliffe reminds her so much of Isaac that she can hardly believe her eyes, and she’s falling for him fast. Irene knows that fairy tales don’t come true, but she allows herself one last wish. She wishes that she could finally say goodbye to Isaac and let herself take a chance on Terrence.
What she doesn’t know is that Terrence is also searching for someone: a shooting star who streaked through his life nine years ago, and he won’t give up until he finds her…
Chasing Wishes is a powerful contemporary tale of lost love and wishes come true, recommended for ages 17+ due to adult content.
Excerpt:
"We shouldn't do this," I whisper, but my body is
waking up and ignoring my mind all the same. My free hand reaches up and
nervously touches his shirtless, muscular torso, hovering tentatively at first
as if afraid before finally making contact. I linger on the strong contours of
his abs, tracing his perfect body with my fingertips, and then I rest my hand
gently against his chest. I can feel the pounding of his pulse against my
palm—his heart is racing just as quickly as mine right now.
Terrence’s eyes are closed, but I can still feel his desire
in his tight shoulders and see it on his lips. He stares at me with his eyes
shut as his imagination paints me in his mind. Even though I’m fully
clothed—even though he can’t even see me—I’ve never felt so bare, so exposed
and vulnerable before than now, lying beneath him as he gazes at my imaginary
beauty.
"Everything about you excites me, Irene," he
whispers, his voice shaking with longing. "Every word you say, every last
thing you do… I see it all in my mind and it’s like nothing I’ve ever felt
before."
He caresses my cheek again and my legs start to shake. I
can’t do this. I want to so badly, but I can’t! He’s Terrence in my heart, but
in my mind, he’s one of my mother’s customers and I’m just like her.
"Let me up, please," I squeak, my voice barely
audible through my fear. I want him, but I’m too scared to let myself have him.
He’s my boss—I can’t let myself make love to my employer, no matter how much I
want to, no matter how much my body screams for me to give in to the pleasure.
He nods slowly and then releases his grip on my hand, sits
up and pulls away from me.
"I'm sorry," he whispers, turning away as I stand
up and straighten out my tank-top. "I shouldn't have done that to you. Please
forgive me."
He sounds sad at my decision, but behind that sadness I
catch a different, almost heartbreaking meaning. He’s sad that I rejected him,
but he’s even more upset because he thinks he’s hurt me somehow. He thinks that
he’s the problem. God, he couldn’t be
more wrong if he tried to be.
The way the moonlight illuminates half of Terrence’s face
and blankets the other in shadows is stunning beyond words. The moonlight
streams in the window and makes his muscles stand out in sharp contrast,
rippling bands of dark and light so gorgeous, so sexy that it’s all I can do
not to kiss him again.
"Terrence…" I start, but my voice catches in my
throat. I shouldn’t do this. I can’t do this. If he was anyone else in the
world, yes, but not my boss. If I take this step, I’m no better than my mother.
"Yes?" he asks.
What did I want to tell him? I don't even know. I have no
idea why I spoke up.
Yes, I do. I totally do. I'm just scared to say it.
"You and I… um…" I stammer, knowing what I want
to say but unable to find the words. I stutter, flail in frustration for the
words I want to say, and just as I’m certain they’re going to elude me forever,
I finally find them.
"I don't work for you tonight, okay?" I blurt
out.
He looks at me confused, as if he doesn't understand what I
mean.
"Terrence, I'm not your employee tonight," I tell
him again, inching closer to the bed.
"Irene, I don't—"
"Say it," I urge him as I close the gap between
us and trail my fingertips down the rock-hard curve of his shoulders. "It's
just Terrence and Irene tonight—no bosses and employees, no jobs or paychecks, just
us."
His eyes widen in comprehension. He finally understands me.
"It's just us tonight," he whispers, and before
he can say another word, I crash my lips into his, setting free all the passion
and longing pent up inside me, and I push him down onto the bed…
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