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All My Tomorrows (Arabesque)
written by Rochelle Alers
Studio : Arabesque
by Arabesque
Publisher : Arabesque
Released : 2005-08-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781583146538
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 10 reviews)
List Price : $6.99
Our Price : $3.39
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Masterpeice |
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I really loved this book; for me it confirmed that there is such a thing as real love and that eventhough everything is not perfectly laid out the impossible is just as real as the possible. Excellent read. |
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If you can't stand the heat... |
Tiring of politics in the kitchen of the five-star restaurant where she is employed, twenty-seven-year-old Lydia Lord knows it's time to move on. With aspirations to launch a gourmet styled restaurant, she resigns from her position and goes back to Baltimore to get organized.
A painful connection with a professional athlete left a bad taste in Lydia's heart, especially for athletes, so her plans do not include romance; she needs to devote all of her attention to her business. To test her ability to supervise a restaurant staff, Lydia volunteers her talents as Head Chef at Camp Six Nations, a summer camp for disadvantaged kids. But her plans take a slight detour when she runs into former football star Kennedy Fletcher. Will she remember her resolve and stay focused?
Former Baltimore Ravens' running back, Ken Fletcher, turned down a multimillion-dollar contract and abruptly left football while at the top of his game. Tired of fortune-seeking 'groupies', and no longer wanting a commitment, Ken only dallies in temporary seductions. He is now a savvy businessman who wants to help underprivileged kids. But the defiant, independent, and sultry chef, who has come to camp, may force him to rethink his resolve about women and relationships.
ALL MY TOMORROWS is a connecting book from the Lord family history, the Lords were first introduced in a debut novel, Home Sweet Home. ALL MY TOMORROWS highlights Ms. Alers' ability to tell a solid story with enough romantic drama to capture the romance in reader's hearts. There is a secondary story that centers on foster care and adoption programs. To bring readers up to date with the Lords, Ms. Alers included Home Sweet Home in this two-story book, it will be a separate review.
Reviewed by aNN
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Hot & Cold Affairs |
Rochelle Alers have returned to the scene with a classic and a newbie to add to her even indulging list of titles with BET. BET has heard the request for Quintin Lord's younger sister Lydia to get her own story and they have also heard the readers who have been screaming that they can't locate Home Sweet Home so when they reached their tenth anniversary and they decided to release books with new and old stories in them from classical writers they made an exceptional choice with Rochelle's Lord family.
All My Tomorrow
Lydia Lord decides that she doesn't like being passed up just because of some chief who doesn't want to be shown up by a twenty seven year old so she decided to quit her job at a four star restaurant to go work at a summer camp for eight weeks without pay to allow to underclass children to come to the camp but most importantly to see if she could run her own restaurant. With the past on her tail and the present in her face she doesn't know what to do when she meets Kennedy Fletcher she makes it known that she doesn't date athletes but he informs her he no longer an athlete but a sports director at the One Nation camp but he doesn't disclose all information to her about who he really is and what he really has. Kennedy Fletcher decided to leave football when a friendship gets out of hand because of one deceitful lie that lead to a locker room brawl so deciding rather than lose his status as a role model in the NFL he walks off leaving many wondering what caused him to quit with no comment to the media. Kennedy has a past that doesn't allow him to trust to easily but it also doesn't allow him to reminisce about his football days because it hurts too much to think of how it all ended. Ken finds himself falling in love with Lydia and although he isn't sure where to go with the love he has for her he knows that he doesn't intend to allow it to walk away from him but when he finds himself competing with her past he isn't sure whether she can let go to allow him to love her. Lydia finally realizes that she loves Ken and that she has to tell him with the thought of the Gypsy on her mind that read Ken and her palm she realizes what the lady was telling her and how to decipher who was who when it came to the two men who would tell her they love her.
Home Sweet Home
Quintin Lord is an artist with a genuine taste in his works while his work habits are a little more distasteful his habits include binges of eating out, dirty clothes scattered across his loft, and loud music but when he meets his new neighbor Victoria Jones for the first time not only is he intrigued by her he is also reprimanded by her to turn his music down. Victoria Jones is a former dancer turned cater when she loses something precious and dear to her she finds herself making some life altering decisions that leaves her devastated and feeling less like her self which leaves her with a shield around her heart. When Quintin finds himself falling in love with Victoria he isn't sure what to do but he is sure that he will marry her before the end of the year while Victoria is determined not to let another man under her shield but find herself becoming emotionally, physical, and romantically involved with Quintin Lord but when Quintin mentions the one thing she can't have she finds herself backing away from it and pulling back from him. Quintin Lord and Victoria Jones finds their selves in a romantic duel that leaves them wanting for one another but will leave someone with a decision that will altered their whole life.
The stories that Rochelle present about the Lords' is very exciting and exhilarating as you watch the two couples fall in love and in return find happiness in ways that they never thought possible in the lives that they lived.
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All My Tomorrows, Indeed!!!!!!! |
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This was a very good read. It was two stories in one book. The first story was about Lydia Lord, a woman in search of something better in her life, feed up with her job she quits and then volunteers at a camp for disadvantaged youth. Kennedy Fletcher is a ex football player, he walked away from a mulitmillion dollar contract seeking something worthwhile in his life. When the two meet at Camp Six Nations, the attraction is instant, but can they put to rest the past to find a love that's everlasting. The second book is about Quintin Lord, a photographer who is tried of the bevy of beautiful women he has shared his bed with, he's looking for something more permanant in his life. Victoria Jones is a women who is still trying to heal the wounds left by her ex, so when she meets Quintin she's drawn to him instantly. The only problem is she has a secret that may put an end to the great relationship that has developed between her and Quintin. Both books are very good, but read Quintin's story first because it is the first in the continuing series. |
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A delightful tale of summer romance |
In "All My Tomorrow's", author Rochelle Alers crafts a fine story of the developing romance of chef Lydia Lord and former football star Kennedy Fletcher.
Lydia meets Kennedy as she arrives to serve as the chef for a summer camp for disadvantaged children from urban environments. She has come to this position after walking away from a position as an assistant chef in a thriving, well regarded restaurant after being passed over from promotions one too many times. Lydia has been hurt by unfulfilled love in the past and comes to the company to focus on her potential for opening her own restaurant and with no thoughts of looking for love. This all changes on the very first day at camp when she meets her cabin neighbor and camp sports director Kennedy.
Kennedy has walked away from an illustrious career in sports at the height of his popularity and money-earning potential; he is owner and sports director of this camp that fulfills his dream to help those who have had fewer successful opportunities than he. He, too, has been scarred by romances gone wrong in the past and has sworn off serious commitments with women. Something about the gutsy, confident Lydia shakes his resolve on that point however.
In this book, Alers explores the coming together of these two wounded and mature souls in an all-satisfying way that explores both their friendship and burgeoning romantic interest. The book is a 2-in-1 bonus that also contains the previously published novel "Home Sweet Home" in which Lydia was first introduced as the younger sister of the male romantic lead Quintin Lord. Although this second story doesn't rise to the same level of greatest as the newer one, it is a nice touch to include it in the same book. |
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