Today I'm participating in the Cover Reveal for author Laura Johnston's
newest YA contemporary romance, BETWEEN NOW AND NEVER!
newest YA contemporary romance, BETWEEN NOW AND NEVER!
TBR March 31st 2015 by Kensington
A convict’s daughter should never fall for an FBI agent’s son, certainly not a teenager like Julianna Schultz who is furious over her mother’s incarceration and the injustice of it all. But that’s exactly what seventeen-year-old Julianna finds herself doing when Cody Rush, the cocky son of the FBI agent who put her mom behind bars, moves into her hometown of Gilbert, Arizona.
Cody Rush—studious, principled, athletic, good looking and blond to boot—is everything Julianna hates, or so she thinks. Yet a series of ill-fated events one night brings them dangerously close, entangling the futures of two people who were never meant to be.
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Excerpt
“Listen”—I cut him off before his
flirtatious ways turn me into a puddle of mush at his feet—“for the record,
that whole photo booth . . . incident . . . didn’t mean anything, okay?”
He sits up, leaning forward to pull
a wallet from his back pocket. He fishes something out and slaps it down on the
coffee table.
“Oh, yeah?” he challenges. “What
about that?”
I glance down at the pictures—the
photo-booth pictures. His index finger taps the third picture, the one of him
practically kissing my neck. The nerve! I feel a wave of heat rising up my neck
and into my cheeks. Wait, he keeps this in his wallet?
“Pulling out that dimple-loaded
smile of yours and doing . . .” I fish for a term to describe what he’s doing
in that picture. Smelling my hair? Kissing my ear? It’s too intimate, too
personal to articulate. “. . . doing . . . that. . . might win over every other
girl who comes your way, but it doesn’t work for me.”
“Oh, yeah?” he asks again and leans
in dangerously close, his tone doubtful. His gaze drops from my eyes to my
lips. “What does do it for you, Julianna?”
The sound of my name on his lips
sinks right to my core, rich and tempting. Like chocolate.
“You would like to know, wouldn’t
you?” I ask, loading as much spite into that challenge as possible.
One side of his lips kicks up, like
he’s thoroughly enjoying this.
About the Author
Laura Johnston lives in Utah with her husband and two children. Growing up with five siblings, a few horses, peach trees, beehives and gardens, she developed an active imagination and always loved a good story. She fell in love with the young adult genre both through her experience in high school as well as her job later as a high school teacher. Laura enjoys running, playing tennis, sewing, traveling, writing, and above all, spending time with her husband and kids. BETWEEN NOW & NEVER is her second novel.
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I liked the cover. It is quite nice. What interest me about the books is the background difference between the two people and how they will be able to overcome it. Thank you so much for hosting.
ReplyDeleteSaw this one on GR. Such a nice cover! It seems to fits the genre. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great cover! I can't wait to read it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteIt does fit. I'm not completely sure about his finger going through her earring, but otherwise it's cute. I like this author and I really liked the first book of hers, so I'm planning on reading this one. :]
ReplyDeleteMe too, Natalie!
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