Never Let You Go
a m o d e r n
f a i r y t a l e
Katy
Regnery
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Date of Publication: 7.7.15
ISBN: 978-0-9909005-5-1
ASIN: B00VS0WJSM
Number of pages: 269
Book Description:
Preston Winslow has a heart
as open as the sky and room in his life for someone special. When he falls in
love with Broadway actress, Elise Klassan, he holds nothing back.
Elise, who has made tremendous sacrifices to forward her career, is swept off her feet by handsome, charming Preston...but the stage has been her first love for so many years, she doesn't know if there's room for Preston in her life. When the day comes that she must choose between her ambition and her heart, she profoundly hurts the one man who could have made her happy.
Two years later, Elise has become a world-famous actress and Preston is a very successful lawyer. But fame has not equaled happiness for Elise, and Preston is much too bitter and cynical to ever consider falling in love again.
Is it possible that the only person who can mend Preston's heart is the one who originally broke it? Only if Elise can figure out a way to make him believe in love all over again.
Elise, who has made tremendous sacrifices to forward her career, is swept off her feet by handsome, charming Preston...but the stage has been her first love for so many years, she doesn't know if there's room for Preston in her life. When the day comes that she must choose between her ambition and her heart, she profoundly hurts the one man who could have made her happy.
Two years later, Elise has become a world-famous actress and Preston is a very successful lawyer. But fame has not equaled happiness for Elise, and Preston is much too bitter and cynical to ever consider falling in love again.
Is it possible that the only person who can mend Preston's heart is the one who originally broke it? Only if Elise can figure out a way to make him believe in love all over again.
Excerpt from
Proposing to Preston:
“I like you, too,” she whispered, unable to
stop herself, mesmerized by the clarity of his bright green eyes staring deeply
into hers.
His gaze dropped briefly
to her lips before claiming her eyes again, and she knew that it was her cue to
get up and walk home, but she couldn’t. He was about to kiss her, and she
wanted him to.
Leaning forward, he
dropped his lips to hers, and her eyes closed as her heart fluttered madly
behind the prison of her ribs. He cupped her cheeks gently, pulling her closer
as his lips caught hers. As though he knew that rubbing his coarse scruff
across her skin would burn, he was careful with her, his lips strong, yet soft,
insistently taking hers, loving them before giving them back and then taking
them once again.
One of his hands slid
into her hair, his fingers fanning out in the soft tresses as he cupped the
back of her head. His other hand feathered slowly down her neck, tracing her
shoulder and skating down her arm before winding around her waist to draw her
up against his chest.
Lifting his mouth from
hers, he tilted his head, then dropped his lips again, sealing them over hers
as she tangled her arms around his neck, arching her body into his.
And he kissed her.
Oh God, he kissed her.
Elise had been kissing
men on the stage since she was sixteen years old, and many times the touch of
someone else’s lips on hers had stirred a feeling within her, whether she
actually liked her co-star or not. But never—not with her meager list of
ex-boyfriends, nor with any man she’d ever kissed under the hot lights of the
theater—had she experienced the sort of chemistry she now shared with Preston
Winslow.
His tongue, hot and
velvet, slid against the length of hers, and she moaned softly from the back of
her throat, a hum of pleasure as his fingers curled into a fist on her lower
back, pushing her body closer to his. His hair, soft as silk through her
spreading fingers, teased her skin as his lips continued their gentle invasion.
And then, as quickly as
it had begun, it was over. Preston rested his forehead against hers, his sigh
hot and sweet against her lips as his chest pushed forcefully into hers with
every deep breath he took.
Just
another second, her heart whispered. Keep your eyes closed and memorize this. This. Him. Now.
“Elise,” he murmured,
and she heard the question in the sound of her name—the plea, the supplication,
the permission to keep going, to take more.
For years, she lived her
life for one reason: to be a successful stage actress. She’d sacrificed, suffered
and labored toward that goal single-minded, poor, and lonely, but always
grounded in the belief that if she let nothing get in her way, she would
eventually make her dreams come true.
Now? Here? With Preston
Winslow’s arm around her, his breath warming her skin, his fingers wound in her
hair, the low sound of his voice like precious music to her ears, she began to
understand the magnitude of the threat he posed to her ambition. She’d sensed
it the first night she met him, as his eyes dove into her very soul, that
Preston Winslow unchecked in her life could become an addiction. And here she
was, limp and languid against him, her heart begging for one more perfect
moment before the brutal ache that would start when she walked away from him
yet again.
Before she lost every
shred of strength she possessed, she pushed at his chest, leaning away from
him. He dropped his hand from her hair and unfurled the fingers that had been
resting in a tight knot against her lower back.
“Elise?” he asked, his
eyes searching hers.
“I have to go,” she
said, standing up quickly before she lost her will.
About the
Author:
Award-winning and Amazon
bestselling author Katy Regnery started her writing career by enrolling in a
short story class in January 2012. One year later, she signed her first
contract for a winter romance entitled By
Proxy.
Now a hybrid author who
publishes both independently and traditionally, Katy claims authorship of the
six-book Heart of Montana series, the
six-book English Brothers series, and
a Kindle Worlds novella entitled Four
Weddings and a Fiasco: The Wedding Date. Katy’s short story “The Long Way
Home” appears in the first Romance Writers of America anthology, Premiere, and she has published two
stand-alone novels, Playing for Love at
Deep Haven and the Amazon bestseller The
Vixen and the Vet, which is book one in Katy’s a m o d e r n f a i r y t a
l e collection. The Vixen and the Vet
was nominated for a RITA® Award in 2015.
Katy lives in the
relative wilds of northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, where her writing
room looks out at the woods, and her husband, two young children, and two dogs
create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories
begin at home.
Upcoming
(2015) Projects:
The
Winslow Brothers (Books #1-4)
Ginger’s
Heart, a modern fairytale
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with Katy:
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