Wait for It
Wait for It is Mariana Zapata's 2016 contemporary romance, written in the deliberately patient style she has made her trademark. Diana Casillas is a thirty-two-year-old hospital nurse in suburban Texas who, after the sudden death of her younger sister, has been raising her two small nephews on her own for two years. Her life is held together with careful budgets, school pickup schedules, and not very much sleep. The new neighbor in the rented house next door is Dallas Walker, a tall, tattooed, perennially scowling general contractor who appears at first to want nothing to do with her or her boys. The relationship that grows between them does so over hundreds of small interactions, a flat tire, a Halloween costume, a sick child at four in the morning, an accidentally overheard phone call. Zapata refuses any quick romantic shortcut, and the resulting book reads more like a long novel about a single household than a conventional romance.
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Diana Casillas is a thirty-year-old Albuquerque graphic designer raising her two orphaned nephews Josh and Louie in a small house in a quiet cul-de-sac. The new neighbor Dallas Walker is a tall and silent man with a beard and a daughter, and he says exactly two words to Diana for almost a year.
Yes. Mariana Zapata's slow-burn romance includes explicit sex scenes in the back half. The lead-in takes hundreds of pages.
Yes. Mariana Zapata's slow-burn romance includes explicit sex scenes in the back half. The lead-in takes hundreds of pages.
It is a standalone, though Zapata has a deep backlist of similarly slow-burn contemporary romances.
Wait for It was written by Mariana Zapata, published in 2016 by Mariana Zapata.
Wait for It is 670 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Wait for It takes most readers 10 to 15 hours to finish.
Wait for It is a standalone novel by Mariana Zapata, not part of a series.
Wait for It is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
