Under the Peaches
Teaching Love #1
By Shana
Vanterpool
Genre: NA Romance
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Unwanted. A word
eighteen-year-old Kaelyn Jefferies knows better than most. Given up at birth,
she knows nothing of love. Now she navigates this world blind, worrying only
about her present to survive. And sometimes when you’re the only guide you
have, you don’t always do what’s best for yourself.
After another
confrontation with her bully, Kaelyn flees to her hiding spot to be alone and
nurse her wounds. Instead, she finds Julian Ean, the gorgeous
twenty-four-year-old calculus teacher the other girls whisper about, nursing a
few of his own. Until that moment, Mr. Ean was simply a man she passed in the
halls. Afterwards, he is impossible to ignore … to forget.
Mr. Ean only
wanted to help Kaelyn. Patch her up and show her she was worth so much more
than she was giving herself. He didn’t mean to fall in love with a student.
It’s wrong, he knows it, but he can’t help himself around her. Not when her
pain feels like his.
Kaelyn didn’t
mean to fall in love with a teacher. It’s wrong, she knows it, but after Mr.
Ean shows her what a real smile feels like, there’s no going back after that …
Book one in the
Teaching Love Series, comes a poignant coming-of-age novel showcasing the
beauty of strength and the delicious lure of forbidden love by Shana
Vanterpool.
He takes a seat
at the bar and stares at me with a myriad of emotions on his face. I can’t
place them because I don’t know why they’re there. But I’ve felt a few. Sadness
isn’t simply one emotion. It’s too many all at once.
“I’m sorry about
that. You just got a front row seat to the end of my relationship and you
shouldn’t have.”
I peek at him.
“Is she your girlfriend?”
“Since freshman
year of college.” He looks at the worn bar top for an uncomfortable second, and
then the words seem to fall out of him in one heartbroken whisper. “I don’t
know what to do.”
I look down too,
not knowing what to say. Having no relationship to speak of, I don’t know what
he’s going through.
He exhales
deeply and stands. “I’d better get back.” He smiles weakly, leaving me at the
bar.
“Who is that?”
Tamryn asks, joining me as I watch him leave.
“Mr. Ean. He’s a
teacher at my school.”
Her eyes widen.
“He’s so young.”
“He’s
twenty-four.”
“Huh. He’s so
hot,” she murmurs, dumbfounded.
I smile. “He is
kind of good-looking.”
“Kind of?” she
scoffs. “Who’s he with?”
“His
girlfriend.”
“Oh. Of course,
he’s taken. Too old for you and taken for me. We can’t catch a break, can we?”
She bumps my shoulder. “Get back to work, slacker.”
He wasn’t that
much older than me. I do the math, shocked to find maybe six years is a stretch.
Coupled with the fact that he’s a teacher, and the man is completely
off-limits.
Romance author,
coffee drinker, and bad boy aficionado. Every second not spent breathing is an
opportunity to write and read. I live in Northern California with my family and
actress dog, Halle Bella. (Just Bella when she decides to cut the crap.)
Escaping with a good book is something I live for and I write so others can do
the same.
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