His doctors, his staff, and his physical therapist are the only ones who know. He’s afraid his bad leg will give out on him. He doesn’t want anyone to know he uses a wheelchair. He made his money in the construction trade, but had a stroke at 35. One by one she breaks them, until she decides her elderly landlord can just kick her out, and she decides to break all kinds of rules in one night. When Annabelle sees his list of regulations, everything from no pets to no music after 9 PM and no swimming in the pool, she’s too impulsive and too much of a rebel to abide by all those rules. But, they warn her against trying to get to know her landlord, Nick Daire. Sophie and her husband, Miguel Vasquez, owners of Vasquez Squared, a graphic design firm, even find Annabelle a place to rent, a guest house on a palatial estate. In a frantic attempt to ward that off, she tells him she’s moving to Phoenix. Even so, Annabelle is reluctant to leave her safety net in Boston, until she realizes her first ex-husband, Jeremy, is about to propose. Offer her a job as creative director of her company in Phoenix while Annabelle is suffering through a Boston winter. It also doesn’t hurt that she makes me homesick for Arizona.Īnnabelle Martin’s best friend, Sophie, knows how to entice the freelance graphic designer. She’s proven she can write sparkling contemporary romances, as shown in her latest, Wait For It. She switched to mysteries because she continually killed off people in her romances. I remember when Jenn McKinlay said her first couple attempts at writing romances didn’t go well.

Wait for it by jenn mckinlay