Title: The Traveling Man (Traveling, #1)
Author: Jane Harvey – Berrick
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Blurb
I was ordinary. Nice. He was extraordinary. And he wasn’t always nice.
Moody and difficult, brilliant and beautiful, Kes scared me and he protected me. He could be incredibly hurtful and incredibly thoughtful. He wasn’t perfect, but he was perfect for me. He challenged me, he took me out of my safe little box and showed me the world could be magnificent. He was everything I wasn’t.
Aimee Anderson is ten when the traveling carnival first comes to her nice little town. She doesn’t expect her world to change so completely. But meeting Kestrel Donohue puts her life on a different path.
Even though she only sees him for the two weeks of the year when he passes through her home town, his friendship is the most important of her life. As a child’s friendship grows to adult love, the choices become harder, and both Kes and Aimee realize that two weeks a year will never be enough.
Nikki's 5 Star Review
The Travelling Man is a brilliant and magical story. Kes and Amiee are just children when they first meet at a carnival Amiee's parents have taken her to as a birthday treat. Both from very different backgrounds, Amiee is a little bookworm and doing good at school, Kes is undereducated unable to read and his family travel with the carnival. They strike up an instant friendship and although they only see each other for 2 weeks in the summer every year their feelings turned from friendship to love. But can two people from such different backgrounds make a relationship work with all the pressures life throws at them including disapproving families.
This book is broken into 2 parts, part 1 the early years and part 2 takes place 8 years later and believe me this is not a book you want to miss. Jane pours so much emotion into her books and characters you instantly fall in love with them its definetly worth more than 5 stars and I can't wait to read the next book The Travelling Woman coming in the spring.
Excerpt
Kes’s ‘costume’
hadn’t changed much in the last couple of years. He was still
barefoot and bare chested, but this time the new assistant, Sorcha,
was hanging over him, wearing a skimpy bra top that looked two sizes
too small, and a floaty chiffon skirt that made her legs seem to go
on forever. I hated her.
I could see why the
Cirque du Soleil agent had been surprised by Kes’s age. He looked
like a man; Sorcha was all woman, and I looked like a little girl.
When the drumbeat
started, the small arena stilled, a few whispers rippling around the
ring. And then Kes galloped out holding two flaming torches, with
Sorcha riding behind him, clinging to his waist.
My jealousy was so
bitter that I wanted to throw up, but the audience clapped and
whistled.
She slid gracefully to
the ground, her bare feet sinking into the sawdust. Her focus was on
Kes as he galloped around her. He hung from Jakey’s neck as he
planted one torch to Sorcha’s left and the second to her right, so
her wild hair seemed to catch fire.
And then the show
began. Kes stood on Jakey’s racing back briefly, then leapt to the
ground.
He juggled the flaming
torches, ran, jumped, and somersaulted onto and from Jakey’s back
again and again, always fluid, always in motion. I held my breath
until my head spun. He wasn’t born for an office or a desk job; he
was born to thrill, to make you gasp, to stop you in your tracks so
you’d have to ask, how did he do that?
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About the Author
I lived in London for over 10 years and have a love affair with New York. It's only since I have moved to the countryside, that the words have really begun to flow.
I live in a small village by the ocean and walk my little dog, Pip, every day. It’s on those beachside walks that I have all my best ideas.
Writing has become a way of life – and one that I love to share.
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Thanks so much for giving Kes and Aimee's story FIVE STARS! WOW! :D jx
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