Proposing To Preston
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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