âFor Jen Faraday - Not to be opened, in any circumstances, until April 2016â
When smooth-talking Alex Fellows tells Jen Faraday he can predict her future â and leaves a note with the bartender for her to collect in one yearâs time â she thinks itâs just a line. After all, how can a man sheâs known for only one night see what her future holds? Or maybe itâs not too hard. Recently her life has been a series of things she hasnât done. She didnât go to college â family trouble. She didnât get married â dumped. And she hasnât yet handed in her notice at work â too scared! If she had to predict her own future, would it be âMore of the sameâ?
Or maybe not. After all, sheâs just had a passionate one-night stand with a man who is rich and ridiculously good-looking and totally not her type. That was unexpected. And she is going to resign from her job⦠Things are already changing. Whatever that prediction says â and how Jen wishes she knew â perhaps this year is the year she takes control of her destiny!
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Itâs Now or Never
Jill Steeples
Copyright
HQ
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2015
Copyright © Jill Steeples 2015
Jill Steeples asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the authorâs imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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E-book Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 9781474035545
Version date: 2018-07-23
JILL STEEPLES lives in a small market town in Bedfordshire with her husband and two children.
From an early age she fell in love with the fabulously funny romances of Jilly Cooper, and vowed, one day, she would have a go at writing one of her own.
Jill loves writing short stories, particularly those with a twist in the tail, and her work has appeared in popular womenâs magazines around the world and in a number of charity anthologies.
Itâs Now or Never is her fourth novel.
To all my lovely readers and friends who have read and enjoyed my books, a very big thank you! Your support is appreciated much more than you can ever know.
A special thank you to my brilliant editor, Victoria Oundjian, for her infinite patience and guidance, and to the rest of the fabulous HQ Digital team for all their hard work and dedication.
Finally, and always, a big thank you to my lovely family for their continued understanding, love and support in the face of extreme hardship - no socks, no food and no attention - love you all! xx
Prologue
I suppose I was curious about that damned letter. Who wouldnât be? It was addressed to me, after all, and it was meant to hold all the secrets to my dazzling future. In that situation Iâd defy anyone not to want to know what was held within that envelope. Part of me saw it as an elaborate joke and I wondered if that was what the funny gorgeous stranger had intended, but there was also a small part of me that couldnât help thinking that he might know something I didnât. Wouldnât that be cool? To think my whole life was known to someone else but not to me?