But she’s the Creative Director now, so slipping in late with a fleeting apology doesn’t cut it, especially when the team assumes she got the job because she’s the boss’s BFF. As though it explains away Annabelle’s casual disregard for rules and makes it okay for her to be perpetually late. She’s a free spirit with little regard to time management and, as the author reminds us often, is an artist. McKinlay spends so much time setting up Annabelle’s impulsive life and background that she misses the opportunity to enrich the developing romance between her two main characters.Īnnabelle Martin is a graphic artist, whiling away the time in Boston with her friends-with-benefits ex-husband, until her best friend offers her a fresh start in Phoenix. What starts off as a mostly chick lit kind of book wraps up as a romance with a quick HEA. And soon she wonders if she and Nick might help each other find the courage to embrace life, happiness, and true love.Jenn McKinlay’s Wait For It is a breezy contemporary romance with humor and heart, and a complex look at loss, courage, and happiness. Nick suffered from a stroke a year ago, and while there's no physical reason for him not to recover, he is struggling to overcome the paralyzing fear that has kept him a prisoner in his own home.ĭespite her promise to herself not to get involved, Annabelle finds herself irresistibly drawn to Nick. Annabelle is shocked when she finally meets Nick and discovers that he’s her age and uses a wheelchair.

Based on the cranky, handwritten notes Nick Daire leaves her, she assumes he is an old, rich curmudgeon. When she arrives in the Valley of the Sun, Annabelle is instantly intrigued by her anonymous landlord. When she’s offered her dream job as creative director at a cutting-edge graphic design studio in Phoenix, she jumps at the opportunity to start over.

She's not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a marriage proposal… from her ex-husband. Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life.

A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner-a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.

Wait For It by Jenn McKinlay