Before the Rain By JoAnne Kenrick
Publisher: Fated Desires.
Flame Rating: Three
Setting: North Wales, UK
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Vacation romance, Opposites Attract
Release date: July 21st 2015
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Before
the Rain is book five in Fated Desires’ multiple author series of
stand-alone stories. In JoAnne’s addition to this series, a
sworn-off-love Southerner escapes her failing life in Georgia and
flees to the UK for
a three month ‘no men allowed’ sabbatical where she unwittingly
falls for the rustic charm of Rose Farm and its Welsh owner.
Blurb
Three
fiancés in three years makes Zoe Chantilly’s relationship column
for the Georgia Times her only semblance of commitment…that is
until her dating advice takes a dive down the Suwannee and
she’s fired.
Unemployed
and single, she leaves the sweltering heat of the south and heads to
the UKfor
a man-free break from life. The plan? Get with nature, write a novel,
and be alone. Be very much alone. But nature has other plans for Zoe.
Navigating
the backcountry roads of Wales seems
just as complicated as her love life. A near-collision hones her
desires in on Dylan Mostyn, a Leo seething with a raw prowess and
macho magnetism the Aquarius in her can’t resist.
This Welshman is as arrogant as he is gorgeous.
He’s also her landlord. The undeniable and thunderous attraction
between them pinnacles during a karaoke duet at the village fete, but
what starts as a no-strings fling quickly spirals toward dangerous
ground.
About JoAnne Kenrick
JoAnne
Kenrick is a multi-published author who writes both
contemporaries and paranormals. She was born and raised in a wee
seaside town in North Wales, and has traveled far and wide. In
true Brit form, she is a teaholic.
She
now lives in North Carolina with her very own British hero, where she
creates ever afters with a backdrop of those wonderful places she's
visited. Come across the pond and faraway...with JoAnne Kenrick.
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Excerpt
Present
Day, August 1, 2015
“Dwi’n
caru ti,”
he rasped in Welsh, rounding out his vowels and sharpening his Rs.
Uh-oh.
Dylan Mostyn only slipped into his native language around Zoe when he
was horny.
He
entwined his fingers with hers, his gray stare fierce yet his touch
gentle.
“Did
you hear me, Chantilly?” he prodded, his voice low and gruff with
his own brand of rustic charm and raw macho energy. “Dwi’n
caru ti…I
love you.”
Ah,
heck, how was she supposed to resist him now?
Like
a teenager about to get her first-ever kiss, she quivered, her knees
knocking together.
Damn
him for being so…so…so British. With his sexy accent and his Hugh
Grant hair flop and Gerald Butler’s down and dirty swoon factor.
And his dimples. Gah.
If she wasn’t so weak-willed, she’d squeeze in one last wham-bam
before heading back to the States.
Who
was she kidding? A quickie wouldn’t sate her needs. Not anymore.
What had Wales—what had Dylan—done to her? Love, a four-letter
word she dreaded. In all her thirty-one years, she hadn’t truly
loved anyone. Had she inadvertently fallen for him? Truly fallen for
him? Like head-over-ass and giddy-in-love fallen for him?
Impossible.
“You
can’t leave.” He edged her against the wall of the farm-style
kitchen in the stone cottage, his chest pressing against hers. “Not
yet.”
“Umm.”
Between his hard body and a stone wall, Zoe dodged his lips by
leaning to the left and pointing to the whistling kettle atop the gas
stovetop. His masculine scent with subtle hints of amber and musk
enveloped her and melted her a little more.
“Do
you love me?”
