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RELEASE BLITZ - Waiting On Forever by Claudia Connor

RELEASE BLITZ – Waiting On Forever by Claudia Connor

If only she’d give him a chance… Waiting on Forever, an all-new angst-filled must-read standalone romance in The Walker Brothers Series from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Connor is live now! Dallas Walker is haunted. He won’t ever forget the horrors he witnessed while working undercover to bust a human trafficking ring, but he has a plan to start a new life. Coming home to his…

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RELEASE BOOST – EXCERPT - GIVEAWAY

Title: Worth the Wait

Series: McKinney/Walker #1

Author: Claudia Connor

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 10, 2017

BLURB:

The first in a spin off series of the New York Times Bestselling McKinney Brothers, WORTH THE WAIT takes readers on a journey through young love into adulthood in a heartwrenching, second chance love story.

  Nick Walker thought nothing could destroy what he had with Mia. He certainly never thought he would be the one to destroy it.   Now ten years later, Mia James is in Special Agent Nick Walker’s path once again and this time he’s determined to shed the weight of regret and finally claim the future that was always meant to be theirs.   It won’t be easy. Mia’s heart was shattered by Nick and now, just when she’d pieced it back together, it’s been broken again, bringing their past to the surface, including her own secret about that day everything went wrong.   ***Every title by Claudia Connor is a Contemporary Romance and a full stand alone novel. No cheating, no love triangle, no cliff hanger.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33004950-worth-the-wait

PURCHASE LINKS:

Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2eJGubh

Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2g1J4aq

Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/2hZSk2y

Amazon AU: http://amzn.to/2jlN5uq B&N: http://bit.ly/2ejOixK Kobo: http://bit.ly/2jq0phc

iBooks: http://apple.co/2eBBlxh

EXCERPT:

~twenty-four years ago

Nick pressed two fingers into the sleep deprived headache pounding in his temple and tried to concentrate on professor Jenkins’s explanation of ideal gas law. He circled a line of notes, ignored the knock on the auditorium door until he heard the familiar cry. Hannah, who he’d left in the university daycare two hours ago.

The high pitched wail wasn’t his two year old sister’s hurt cry. It was her scared cry with a touch of pissed off. In the six months since their parents’ death, he’d learned to tell the difference. He’d learned a lot of things. Like if he didn’t take her to the bathroom, she’d likely wait too long and have an accident. Like green beans made her throw up, but she’d eat them if he told her to. And she would never, ever go to sleep without Mr. Bunny.

He was up, out of his seat, and halfway down the auditorium stairs before his professor laid his pen down.

Nick’s eyes narrowed on the young blonde in an oversized sweatshirt with silk greek letters sewn on the front. She held a sobbing Hannah dressed in the sunny yellow sundress he’d picked out that morning. She hadn’t been crying when he left her. Now her eyes were red and snot mixed with tears dripped into her mouth. Hannah lunged for him. His arms engulfed her small body and his heart squeezed like it always did when she held onto him.

“I stay you,” Hannah said. Each word tumbled out of her with a jerk of her tiny shoulders.

“What happened to her?”

“Nothing happened to her. She hasn’t stopped screaming for the past hour and she bit three people. We can’t keep her like that.”

Several responses came to mind.

She’s just a baby. 

She missed her nap.

And the loudest of all, it was my fault for leaving her.

Hannah raised her head to look at him, giant tears hanging from golden lashes. “I bite.”

“Well. At least she’s honest.” Professor Jenkins turned his questioning eyes to Nick. “She yours?”

He hesitated, but only a second. “My sister. But yes, she’s mine.” And at that moment she became even more his, which seemed to be the case every day. Every day, a little more his.

AUTHOR BIO:

Claudia Connor is the author of the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series, The McKinney Brothers. Her debut novel, WORTH THE FALL, hit the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2014 and received numerous Best Contemporary Romance of 2014 accolades. 

Claudia attended Auburn University, where she received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in early childhood education. After teaching kindergarten and first grade for ten years, she retired to be a full-time mom to her three daughters. Always a lover of books, and always one to have stories playing in her mind, she decided to try her hand at writing. It took seven years to finish her first novel and a new love was born.

Claudia lives near Memphis, Tennessee with her husband, three daughters, two cats, and a singer-songwriter Siberian Husky. She continues to write warm, heartfelt, and emotional romances with a bit of steam, a lot of family and always a happily ever after.

AUTHOR LINKS:

Website: http://claudiaconnor.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClaudiaConnor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claudia_connor/  

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/claudiaconnor  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Claudia__Connor

GIVEAWAY:  There is a giveaway for an ebook copy of Worth the Wait

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ARC Review: Worth It All (The McKinney Brothers #3) by Claudia Connor

My Review

Worth It All is my first book by Claudia Connor, though third book in The McKinney Brothers series, and I loved it! It was a sweet, sexy, heart melting second chance at love story with great characters that were giving me the happy sighs all throughout the story.

I really liked both Jake/JT  and Paige from the start. Jake is sweet, extremely intelligent, determined and humble. He is the mad scientific genius behind the business he started with his two friends, Simon and Lynn, looking for ways to constantly improve prosthetics as well as make them affordable and available to those who need them, but keeps his achievements on the down low. And while he loves being help others and does like the way his life as been for the last few years, he’s kept far away from any committed relationships due to the guilt he still carries from his past.

Paige is one amazing woman. She hasn’t had an easy life and being a single mother hasn’t made it any easier, but she is a fighter. She is determined to give her daughter everything she never had. With that goal though, comes long hours of work and school and being a mother to an adorably precocious and inquisitive five year old, but she deals because Casey is worth it. What I loved about her was how, even when exhausted, she still carried a positive and genuine attitude. She was kind, compassionate and grateful to those who pitched in to help her. But though she loves her daughter and wouldn’t give her up for anything, she’s put herself firmly in a no dating zone because of it.

I loved how Jake and Paige’s relationship started all thanks to Casey. True, they had been in each other’s presence before, but if it hadn’t been for Casey they would have continued to simply be polite strangers. But thankfully she was the brave one of the three of them and because of her Jake and Paige were able to get to know each other and it really was a great journey to watch as they both started to realize that while they were definitely physically and sexually attracted to each other, they also genuinely liked each other and wanted to spend more time together. They come up against a few bumps in the road, mostly the ones that they have created themselves, but the way it all works out in the end was perfect.

This was my first book by Claudia Connor and I was hooked from the first page. The writing was engaging and the entire story flowed well from start to finish. The dual 3rd person POV was spot on and I enjoyed seeing the world through both Jake’s and Paige’s minds and being a fly on the wall as they worked through their issues. The secondary cast of characters were a true delight. I fell in love with Simon right away and Jenny was a true firecracker anytime she was on the page, but the true star of this book was Casey. She was such cutie that I wanted to hang out with her and eat her veggies. The way the author presented the issues that amputees face was done with a lot of respect and empathy and also did a great job to show what people can accomplish when they put their minds to it.  And though this is the third book in the series, I never felt as if I was missing out on anything, but will definitely be going back to read the first two books as well as keeping an eye out for more books by the author.

~ ARC provided by Random House Publishing House - Loveswept via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review ~

My Rating: 4 Stars

Description

She's fighting for control. . . . Paige Roberts learned to fend for herself growing up. Now she's doing everything possible to give her daughter, Casey, the stability she never had. But when the vivacious five-year-old decides she's done wearing her prosthesis, Paige faces her toughest challenge yet: trusting a handsome, brooding stranger who simply wants to help.

He's struggling to connect. . . . JT McKinney lost more than his leg in a car accident that stole his dreams of pro football. Eight years later, he's made a new life for himself far away from his old one. His business is developing cutting-edge prosthetics and he's more than happy to turn his attention to machines instead of people. Still, he can't shake the feeling that something's missing.

Will they take a chance on love? . . . When JT gets the chance to help Paige's daughter, he takes it. He never planned on the two of them tearing down his walls or teaching him to believe in himself again. Paige might not believe in happily ever afters, but JT wants more than anything to be her prince. They'll both have to let go of the past if they want a future.

Book Summary

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Published By: Random House Publishing House - Loveswept

Release Date: April 19th, 2016

Pages: 263

Series: The McKinney Brothers #3

ISBN 110188729X

ISBN13: 9781101887295

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