Title: The Traveling Woman (The Traveling Duet, #2)
Author: Jane Harvey – Berrick
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
THE CONCLUDING STORY of Aimee and Kestrel, begun in THE TRAVELING MAN ……
How many times do you gamble on love? When love has knocked you down, should you give it another chance? When does optimism become stupidity?
And what happens when the man you’re in love with is never still, always moving, always traveling? Do you say goodbye, or do you leave behind everything that you’ve worked for, everything that you’ve ever known? Can a traveling carnival be my home
Oh. You thought I had the answers. No, sorry. No answers, just a lot of questions—and a heart that wants to rule my head.
Can one person be my home?
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There was a long line outside the club, and I groaned as we joined the end.
“Maybe we’d better go somewhere else,” I sighed, not relishing the idea of waiting around outside.
But Kes just walked up to the doorman, slipped him a twenty, and we were waved in.
Kes wrapped his arm around me as the hostess led us to table on a raised platform near the dance floor. A waitress came over immediately, and Kes ordered more champagne and water for himself. I wondered how much money he’d laid out to get the five-star service.
I’d never seen this side of him before and it intrigued me.
“Wanna dance?” he whispered, nuzzling my throat.
“I think I’m a bit drunk,” I admitted with a laugh.
“Just hold onto me.”
“Sounds like a plan.”
The music’s thumping bass line matched the rhythm of my heart as Kes pulled me toward him. My arms wrapped around his neck, winding a lock of his hair around my fingers. My body was pressed flat against his, not even an inch between us. His muscular thigh pushed between my knees as we swayed to the music, his hands resting on my hips, his long fingers almost meeting in the small of my bare back.
Between the champagne, my heels, and the closeness of Kes’s hard body, I felt off balance. He steadied me between his hands, his gaze flitting between my breasts and my lips. His face was stern, his eyes flashing black with need, and I felt the solid length of his erection against my hip.
The pulse of the music was in my blood, which Kes was slowly bringing to the boil.
Our lower bodies pressed together, and I arched away from him, leaning out so my long hair swung down my back.
I felt one of Kes’s hands move from my hip to wrap my hair around his fist. He hovered over me, his breath hot on my chest.
“I fuckin’ love your hair,” he growled.
A bead of sweat trickled down the side of his head, and I pulled myself in close again to lick it. Kes’s eyes fluttered closed, then opened again quickly.
I slid my hands over his chest and stomach, feeling the muscles tremble under my touch. His t-shirt was damp under my fingers; he’d long ago pulled off his long-sleeved shirt and tied it around his waist.
“You wanna get some … air?” he asked, his tongue licking up the sweat at the base of my throat.
I had to swallow several times before I could reply.
“Okay.” My voice sounded husky.
He grabbed my hand immediately and led me from the dance floor. I had a quick glimpse of Zef and Mirelle joined at the lips, and I smiled to myself.
Kes steered me through the crowd until we reached the hallway that led to the bathrooms, but he kept going, finally pushing through a door at the rear of the building. We were in a dark alley where crates of empty bottles were stacked up. It smelled of beer and trash, making me wrinkle my nostrils, but then Kes’s mouth was on mine, and it was the scent of my shower gel and Kes’s clean sweat that surrounded me.
I wrapped my leg around his waist and ground against him. He caught my knee with one hand and pushed me backwards. My bare skin hit the rough brick, and I cried out.
“Shit!” he muttered.
Then he picked me up, turning around so his own back was braced against the wall.
“Kes, please!”
He chuckled lightly. “Are you begging, Aimee? Is the good little schoolmarm begging for sex in a dirty alley?”
“God, yes,” I moaned.
A surprised laugh stuttered out of him. “Shit, really?”
“Yes! A thousand times yes!”
He hesitated. “This isn’t you; it’s the champagne talking.”
I fisted his shirt and pulled him toward me.
“It is me, Kes. It’s the girl who let a strange boy climb in her window; it’s the 16-year old girl who stroked you until you were hard while we lay on the grass at the back of the carnival field; it’s the girl who gave you her virginity, even though she knew that you were leaving in a few days. The girl who’s been lost for years, sleepwalking through her life. Until I found you.”
He stared into my eyes, searching for any sign of doubt.
Satisfied by what he saw, he placed my feet back on the ground and flicked open the button on my jeans.
“There
are some books that speak to your heart, this book will not only do that but
will touch your soul and stay with you forever”
The Traveling Woman is by far
the best book I have read in 2015.
Emotional, dramatic,
heart-wrenching, loving, caring, sensual, these are just some of the words I
feel best describe such a wonderful book.
You fall in love with these two
all over again and although this is a sequel it picks up so effortlessly from
The Traveling Man that you feel as if you have just finished reading book
1. You are once again emerged in the
world of Kes and Aimee and what a wonderful, colourful, dramatic world that is.
From the moment you read the
prologue you are hooked, you want to know what happens next.
The love that these two have for
each other is unlike any other, they cannot stay away from each other long,
their love pulls them back like a magnetic force. They are soul mates, they just have to
realise this and work out all the kinks in-between.
Kes realises that in order to
keep Aimee and to love her the way he wants and the way she deserves he has to
be honest with her and that means bring up painful things from his past that he
wanted to keep hidden. Unsure of how
Aimee will react shows such vulnerability in Kes, a childlike quality that is
so endearing and touches you right in the heart. You feel his pain, his anxiousness and
understand why he has kept things hidden for so long.
The connection these two has is
so palatable
“I could feel the adoration in his touch, in his slow kisses, showing me once
again, speaking without words, promising that he loved me, that he’d always
loved me”
Nothing is easy in life and
especially when you have important decisions to make and in Kes and Aimee’s
lives these decisions would make or break them as a couple. “His Element was the air around him, I had
roots he had wings – could they ever work together?”
Aimee has life changing
decisions to make, could she be forever with Kes, living his life, giving up
everything she had in New Hampshire. I must say I admired Aimee here; she was
strong and determined to live her life the way she wanted and to have some
happiness in her life.
Throughout this story as you get
to know more about Kes you see his vulnerable side, the shame he has at not
being able to read properly but also his love for Aimee and the Carnival and
the people whom he calls his family, you also get a better understanding of how
Aimee see’s Kes “When he performs, he is all of us, the person we wish we could
be. He is the hero in all of us”
To me this was so profound of how she saw Kes and what he did and her
admiration for him.
The Carnie people are a crazy,
loving, fun family who look out for each other, trust each other and devote
their lives to each other and all the way through this book that became so
prominent, it actually made me think of us “normal” people and the way we don’t
do half as much as they do to look out for those we love.
Things are not easy by a long
shot and as life goes on there are major obstacles to overcome and deal
with. Life is not rosy; it is difficult,
tense and heart-breaking. Things that
two people in love should never go through are thrown their way but is their
love strong enough to survive?
6 Stamps
I was a little nervous to read The Traveling Woman (TTW) because The Traveling Man (TTM) had been left on a cliffhanger and I had so many scenario running through my head as to where Jane might take Kes and Amies story. I loved TTM and wanted Kes and Amie to get their HEA they so very much deserved.In the traveling man you could feel the magic Jane brought to life through her words on every page. At the start of the traveling woman I feel like a little of that magic had been lost because Kes and Amie are apart. Thing is the magic wasn't lost it was just hiding waiting to be found again. TTW has a more 'real life' feel to it, it shows the hard ship people in different career paths face when both worlds cant seem to run together.
This is what i love the most about Janes writing, the fact that every story she writes is always so close to real life situation which makes it that much more real feeling and impossible to forget!I don't want to say much as to what happens in TTW because there is so many surprise moment and things you will not see coming and I don't want to ruin the discovery for any one. What I will say is that The Traveling Woman was everything I could imagine and more.
We get to see more into Kes's head and that was something I'm sure we were all dying to see. It also answers a lot of questions I was left sitting with from the TTM. We still get to see a lot of the secondary charters such as Zack, Zef and Tucker who think play a big part in Kes and Amies story. I hope over time they will get their own stories too.I absolutely love the Traveling Woman and I think it was the prefect end to Kes and Amies story.
5 Stamps
The Traveling Man (The Traveling Duet, #1)
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.
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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