By turns heartbreaking and sweet, I WANT IT THAT WAY
follows two new adults figuring out how they can reach for,
and grab onto, true love while still living their messy
lives. Book one of a New Adult series, Aguirre
demonstrates with flair that she can write contemporary
fiction as gripping as her science fiction romance novels
or her dystopian young adult books. This story
unflinchingly shows the grind of daily struggles, the angst
of love obstructed, and the euphoria of triumph over
adversity.
Nadia Conrad is a struggling college student. She and
three roommates move in to an apartment building during her
junior year of college in Mount Albion, Michigan. Nadia is
the first in her family to go to college. Her parents in
Nebraska have scrimped and saved to come up with her
tuition. Nadia is working at a day care to cover her
bills, and studying to become a special education teacher.
She feels great pressure to keep her grades up to maintain
her scholarship, and also pressure to excel in becoming a
teacher. Nadia tells herself she doesn't have time for a
relationship! But something about her new downstairs
neighbor calls to her...
Single father Daniel Tyler lives in the apartment below
Nadia with his four year old son, Sam. Daniel is barely
balancing a full-time construction management job and night
classes to become an architect while taking care of his
son. Burned badly by Sam's mother, Daniel has no intention
of succumbing to his intense interest in Nadia, despite her
long, gorgeous legs and great personality. He tells
Nadia, "I'm a pro at not getting what I want." But he
finds it hard to resist the lure of getting to know her,
even as he tells himself he must keep his distance...
The problems faced by Nadia and Daniel are refreshingly
ordinary, pulling the reader easily into the story.
Experiencing their anxiety and heartbreak, I became so
invested in their happily ever after. I had a deeply
visceral satisfaction when I closed the book on the last
page, because Aguirre made me care so deeply for Nadia and
Daniel. The story seethes with chemistry and angst, and
then soothes with dreamy sweet moments. I WANT IT THAT WAY
will
make you forget the world around you as you read.
Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she's determined to make
them come true—for her parents' sake as well as her own. But
between maintaining her college scholarship and working at
the local day care to support herself, she barely has time
to think, let alone date. Then she moves into a new
apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B….
Daniel Tyler has grown up too fast. Becoming a single dad at
twenty turned his life upside down—and brought him heartache
he can't risk again. Now, as he raises his four-year-old son
while balancing a full-time construction management job and
night classes, a social life is out of the question. The
last thing he wants is for four noisy students to move into
the apartment upstairs. But one night, Nadia's and Ty's
paths cross, and soon they can't stay away from each other.
The timing is all wrong—but love happens when it happens.
And you can't know what you truly need until you stand to
lose it.
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