Kylie Carter (18), a nerdy, senior high school student and slightly shy teenager gets pulled along by her mother, Mrs Carter to the birthday party of an old family friend, Mrs Jones. At the birthday party, Kylie meets Ashton Jones (21), a handsome, fun loving, university medical student, who is the son of Mrs Jones. After meeting Ashton, and telling him she has trouble with biology as a school subject, he offers to help her prepare for her upcoming, end of the year biology test, which Kylie agrees to.
On the day of their meeting, Ashton teaches Kylie about what she needs to know about biology and gives her a test afterwards. At the end of the session, Kylie gets a little nervous of her situation and gets quite tipsy on the champagne that Ashton brought. Then Ashton, who is a little tipsy himself and Kylie, end up having sex. To her shock, after a while, Kylie finds out she is pregnant.
Kylie decides to tell her best friend and Ashton's baby sister, Katie Jones (17), a nerdy, senior high school student as well. They both eventually agree that having the baby is a good option. The excitement and tenseness of the situation is short-lived after Kylie gets diagnosed with a unique immune disorder which will make it impossible for her to have her baby. Ashton then searches the internet for possible solutions, and after searching for months he eventually finds what he thinks is the solution. What he finds, is an English medical doctor, who is willing to do a new experimental medical procedure in which he could help Ashton to ultimately, carry, and conceive Kylie's extreme premature baby. Going through surgery will come at huge cost, though, for Ashton and Kylie. Will Katie's baby girl, and now, love of her life Ashton, live to see another day, or will they breathe their last breath in the surgery room?
This story contains some light sexuality.
Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris?
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24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books
As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) )
In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes...
"Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ
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On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other.
As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going?
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Cover designed by Ray Gardener