The Season Long Awaited

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>New Year's Eve: out with the old in with the new... but this year everything changed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I've lived by checklists my whole life-set goals crush them repeat. Except for one list I've never managed to complete: fall in love get married have children. Now I'm thirty chronically single and the one person who ever made me believe in fate disappears at midnight-right after the champagne toasts the fireworks and the Happy New Year kisses that felt like destiny in disguise.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Asher Hunter vanished without a trace and it's not until the following year that he magically appears again. Our connection is instant cosmic like the universe pressing rewind. Even with a year between us it's as if time never dared to move forward. One look one laugh one touch-and suddenly we're tangled in bedsheets and stars. When the clock strikes midnight again he's gone. But this time he leaves me with a promise: </span><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>same day next year if the stars align</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The rules are simple. We keep living our lives chasing our dreams pretending we're not haunted by the idea of an impossible love. A friendship. A few stolen messages. A few stolen nights. Until one year fate gives us more than either of us bargained for: a baby.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>What began as a once-a-year affair becomes a forever question. What do you do when the wish you whispered into a glass of champagne actually comes true?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Now with a life growing between us we're forced to face the one thing we've both avoided-what it means to choose love not just once a year but every day after.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The Season Long Awaited</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a spellbinding sizzling and heart-melting contemporary romance for fans of </span><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The Guardian</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Dear John </span><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>You've Got Mail</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>One Day</em><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p>