The Countdown to Thirty
by Nefertiti Faraj
Meet Sonia Kemp – A beautiful head-turning, trash talking, hilarious Fashionista with a Homecoming crown under her belt and enough intellect and wit to be CEO of her own Fortune 500 company someday. The only problem is her college sweetheart turned college heartbreak wrecked her world and left her life in shambles forcing her to drop out of school and set her mind to more pressing matters. Now, five years later with a lethally guarded heart and more eager and ambitious than ever, she craves the opportunity to set the sands of time back where she left them…but some things should just stay in the past. Kaia Hammond – Or Little Kaia as some like to call her has everything a twenty-eight year old woman should want. She’s college educated, has a successful career as a graphic designer and is only one offer away from owning her first home. Life couldn’t get much better except she desires marriage and children but has been in an idle two-year relationship with a personal trainer – Malcolm Malone – that hasn’t progressed much since day one. And if that wasn’t bad enough her success has labeled her as the black sheep of her family and she’s been burdened with the daunting task of reconfiguring her relationship with an old family friend before time runs out. When Sonia stumbles upon a talk radio segment called the Countdown to Thirty and shares it with Kaia one night while taking a dip in their complex Jacuzzi, the ladies make a pact to get serious now and walk out of their twenties more fulfilled then when they came in. The pressure is on in The Countdown to Thirty