REVIEW: Just For Now by Annie Kelly

Just For Now by Annie Kelly: Rainey doesn’t fit into her family. While her family is wealthy, Rainey herself shuns their wealth preferring her job as a social worker helping at risk youth. She loves her job, her coworkers, and the kids she works with, but she wishes that she could do more to help them.

Rainey has already been dealing with some changes as her two best friends have found themselves in committed relationships and she pretty much has their apartment to herself. So she isn’t thrilled to walk into work only to find out she has a new boss without any warning whatsoever. And to add insult to injury, her brand new boss Owen just so happens to be smoking hot.

Owen is looking forward to the challenge of now running the youth center and has to quickly adjust to the problems that teenagers pose. He is smart, capable, and dedicated to making the youth center better for the kids. He’s open to new ideas, but he also has a lot of questions about how the center was run. It’s a big problem then that he’s so attracted to Rainey when there is more behind the county’s management shake-up than she knows.

“I don’t want to be friends, Rainey,” he almost growls, his gaze flitting back and forth between my eyes.
“You don’t?” I ask, legitimately caught up in his gaze and heat.
Please make a move. Please make a move. Please make a move.

They try to keep their relationship professional, but it seems to be a losing battle from the beginning. They are reluctant to get involved since Owen is her boss, but that’s not enough of a reason to stay apart once they get to know each other. Once they do get together, they have to keep their relationship a secret and that’s not the only secret Owen is keeping.

“Hey, Rainey?”
“Hmmm.”
“That black dress have a pair of heels to go along with it?”
I grin and sway my hips as I head out the door.
“It just might…”

Just For Now was a sexy, engaging workplace romance. Annie Kelly built the anticipation while balancing humor, romance, drama, and realities of working at a youth center. Ms. Kelly provided entertaining secondary characters in Rainey’s friends, coworkers, and the teens. Just For Now can be read as a standalone in the Flirting with Trouble series. Fans of Shiloh Walker and Erika Kelly will enjoy Just For Now.

Book Info:

Publication: July 19th 2016 | InterMix | Flirting With Trouble #3

Tension and passion collide in the latest Flirting With Trouble novel from the author of Until Tomorrow.

She wants to break out…

Unlike her older sisters, Rainey Wallace is determined to stop relying on the family fortune—in fact, when she tells her parents her intentions of going into social work, they cut her off. Now the only stable forces in her life are her friendships and the recreation center where she runs an after school program for disadvantaged youth. Nothing, however, has prepared her for the risks of the workplace.

He makes her want to give in…

When newcomer Owen Marshall is appointed by the county as the new program director, he decides to restructure programs and reevaluate staff, including Rainey. And it doesn’t take long for their arguments to turn exceptionally heated—and steamy. But their scorching hot fling comes to a halt when she discovers that the county is threatening to cut the center’s funding. With the fate of those depending on her up in the air, Rainey needs to decide whose side she’s on——the children she’s come to love or the man who’s turned her whole world upside down…