Marry Me Mad
The Blueberry Lane Series: The Rousseaus #2
By: Katy Regnery
Releasing October
21, 2016
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Did you fall in love with The English Brothers? Were you hot for the Winslows? Katy Regnery's Blueberry Lane series continues with The Rousseau siblings!
For as long as Madeleine “Mad” Rousseau can remember, she’s been the “sweet” twin to her sister Jax’s “sassy.” But after an especially painful break-up, Mad decides she’s had enough of being sweet. Children’s librarian during the day, she begins visiting Philly’s seedier nightspots on a quest for adventure and experience. When Cortlandt “Cort” Ambler, the ex-boyfriend of Mad’s sister, Jax, saves her from disaster on one such evening, an unlikely friendship is born between the rebellious librarian and the moonlighting pianist…and two broken hearts begin a journey toward being whole again.
“Hi.”
He turned to find Mad standing in
the doorway of the small room holding a towel and dragged his eyes hungrily
from her bare feet, over the lines of her comfy gray pants, to her soft-blue,
scoop-necked T-shirt, ending at the shiny onyx waves of hair that framed her
lovely face.
His breath caught as he stared
into her eyes, recognizing the girl he’d known in the mouth-watering body of
the full-grown woman before him and feeling blessed beyond measure to have this
glimpse of her that he suspected few were privy to: Mad Rousseau without the
heels and chignon—heart-stoppingly beautiful and utterly captivating au natural.
He cleared his throat and she
grimaced, dropping her eyes to her toes and the towel to the arm of the sofa.
“I’ll get us some tea,” she
murmured, slipping away in a hurry.
Cort stared at the space she’d
vacated so quickly, feeling confused, wondering what the heck had just
happened. Why had she grimaced? Why had she looked…disappointed? Picking up the
towel as he followed her to the kitchen, he pushed open the swing door and
stood just inside of it, scrubbing the rainwater from his hair as he watched
her work in the small space. She finished filling a kettle with water and
placed it on the stove, finally glancing up at him sheepishly.
“Not a good look for me,” she said
softly, standing up on her tiptoes to open a cabinet over the microwave. “I’ve
already been told. Multiple times.”
“I’m sorry…you’ve been told what exactly?” he asked. He looped the
towel around his neck and stepped toward her, reaching over her head for the
mugs she wanted. He held them out to her, and she flicked her glance to them
before gesturing to her clothes.
“That I can do better than sweats
and a T-shirt.” She shrugged. “But I was wet and cold and tired. I didn’t feel
like putting on another outfit, so I—”
“I’m sorry. Wait a minute,” he
said, putting the mugs down on the counter and staring at her in disbelief.
“Are you apologizing to me for the
clothes you’re wearing?”
She gestured helplessly with one
hand. “I saw the way you looked at me.”
“Baby,” he said, reaching out to
touch the soft-blue fabric covering her shoulder and running his fingers over
the small sleeve of the T-shirt, then down the length of her arm, “you look
good enough to eat. You look beautiful. And anyone who thinks different is a
blind fucking lunatic.”
“Cort,” she gasped, her eyes
softening as she stared up at him.
“I’m serious. The pencil skirt and
fancy hair? Gorgeous. Sure. But this?” He let his eyes roam slowly, intently
over her form, pausing at the luscious mounds of her breasts before stopping at
her lips as his fingers threaded through hers. “This is you, Mad. And you’re…” He shook his head looking for the right
words, but only one circled around and around in his head. “Baby, you’re music.”
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Twenty-five books later, Katy claims authorship of the multi-titled, New York Times and USA Today Blueberry Lane Series, which follows the English, Winslow, Rousseau, Story, and Ambler families of Philadelphia; the six-book, bestselling ~a modern fairytale~ series; and several other standalone novels and novellas.
Katy’s first modern fairytale romance, The Vixen and the Vet, was nominated for a RITA® in 2015 and won the 2015 Kindle Book Award for romance. Katy’s boxed set, The English Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1–4, hit the USA Today bestseller list in 2015, and her Christmas story, Marrying Mr. English, appeared on the list a week later. In May 2016, Katy’s Blueberry Lane collection, The Winslow Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1-4, became a New York Times E-book bestseller.
In 2016, Katy signed a print-only agreement with Spencerhill Press. As a result, her Blueberry Lane paperback books will now be distributed to brick and mortar bookstores all over the United States.
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, two dogs, and one Blue Tonkinese kitten create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories begin at home.
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