My Thoughts
I absolutely loved Claudia's McKinney brothers series and while reading Hannah and Stephen's story I hoped that she would share the stories of Hannah's brothers. I was super excited to hear that she is doing just that. Nick's story is first and it's heart breaking and swoon worthy all at the same time. His and Mia's story will make you cry and make you swoon for sure. I loved that Nick stepped up to care for his family when their parents were killed. So young to have such a huge responsibility. He takes something for himself when he falls head over heels for Mia. Then something happens that changes both of them and tears them apart. Years later they find each other again when they least expect it. Nick wants her back in his life and Mia is protecting the heart that he so wants to win again. I loved them together and can't wait to read more about these brothers.
I give Worth the Wait 4 hearts!
I absolutely loved Claudia's McKinney brothers series and while reading Hannah and Stephen's story I hoped that she would share the stories of Hannah's brothers. I was super excited to hear that she is doing just that. Nick's story is first and it's heart breaking and swoon worthy all at the same time. His and Mia's story will make you cry and make you swoon for sure. I loved that Nick stepped up to care for his family when their parents were killed. So young to have such a huge responsibility. He takes something for himself when he falls head over heels for Mia. Then something happens that changes both of them and tears them apart. Years later they find each other again when they least expect it. Nick wants her back in his life and Mia is protecting the heart that he so wants to win again. I loved them together and can't wait to read more about these brothers.
I give Worth the Wait 4 hearts!
About the Book
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.
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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.
About the Author
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.
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