Live Through Books

JUST ONE YEAR BY PENELOPE WARD Teagan is a bit unhappy to say the least that the obnoxious British boy is her new housemate, thanks to the exchange student who was supposed to be rooming at her house being allergic to cats. But she's even more unhappy to find that he's happy to put her in her place and let her know what a terrible sister she's been to her younger sister. So she bares all her anger at him via passive aggressive emails. And she's witty and funny as hell. Caleb certainly sees through her, though. And maybe, just maybe, Teagan's anger toward the hot Brit invader is just masking something very different than anger. I LOOOOOVED Caleb and Teagan together! So much snappy, witty banter, some seriously laugh out loud moments, and even more significantly, some quietly emotional times that left the most impact on me as a reader. Although these two are young throughout the story, they feel more mature than their ages, and their love story packs a major punch. T...

JUST ONE YEAR IS LIVE! From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. SYNOPSIS The beginning of my sophomore year in college was off to a rough start. On the first day of orientation, I had an altercation with an infuriating British dude in a campus bathroom. (The ladies’ room was out of order. So, I used the men’s room. Don’t judge.) I got home later that night and realized that the foreign student we were expecting to rent a room in my parents’ house was allergic to our cat. So, the spare room went to someone else: Caleb—the British guy from the men’s room. And so it began…my love-hate story with Caleb Yates. Or was it hate-love in that order? The guy knew how to push every one of my buttons. Sometimes I’d email him to express my aggravation and disdain. He’d actually rewrite my own words and send them back to me. That was the type of infuriating person Caleb was. So frustrating. And… Sometimes incredibly funny and endearingly swee...

JUST ONE YEAR (A standalone) Release date: 2/24/2020 From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. Excerpt Reveal Copyright © 2019 By Penelope Ward I stormed up the stairs and headed straight to my old room—his room. But when I got to the top of the stairwell, I swallowed the words I’d been prepared to unleash. The unexpected sight of Caleb doing pull-ups met my eyes. He used a bar affixed to the top of the door to lift himself up. He wore a T-shirt that rode up each time he rose. His hard abs were now staring me in the face, ripples of carved muscle. He had black wrist wraps on. He’d turned my old room into a home gym. He was a bastard—but there was no denying he was beautiful. I cleared my throat. “Did my father give you permission to put that thing in  the doorway?” The house shook as he landed on his feet. “Well, hello, Teagan. Amazing how easy it is to walk up the stairs, isn’t it? He grabbed a towel and wiped the s...