a m o d e r n
f a i r y t a l e
Katy
Regnery
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Date of Publication: 6.12.15
ISBN: 978-0-9912045-8-8
ASIN: Available on release day
Number of pages: 450
Word Count: 141,298
Book Description:
Regret,
betrayal, kidnapping, loss, madness, abuse, passion, love.
In this modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel, thirteen-year-old
foster children Griselda and Holden escape from their abductor after three
years of brutal captivity, and try to cross the Shenandoah River on foot.
Tragically, one of them makes it to safety, but the other is left behind.
Ten years later, Griselda’s
boyfriend drags her to a fight club grudge match, and her world is turned
upside down when she watches Holden step into the ring.
Though the connection between them
is fierce, bitter regret, simmering rage, and a tangle of physical and
emotional scars lie between them, just as dangerous as the white water of the
Shenandoah.
Never
Let You Go is a story of fear and hope, defeat and survival,
and two people—once profoundly broken—who discover that love is the only thing that can make them whole
again.
Excerpt
from Never Let You Go
This girl.
Everything about this girl made him want, made him long, made him yearn to change his life, start his life, finally live
his life after a decade of going through the motions. He wanted to get a better
job to take care of her. He wanted to stop fighting because she disapproved of
it. He wanted enough money to have every tally mark lasered from his arm. He
wanted some sort of guarantee that she’d never, ever leave him again. And he
wanted all of it now. Yesterday. Ten years ago, and every day since.
Standing up
slowly, he let his body settle into an upright position before taking his time
crossing the hall to the bathroom and then heading out into the common room.
She stood at the
stove with her back to him, her feet bare, her hair in a ponytail, the
mouthwatering smell of fried chicken filling the entire cabin with goodness.
Holden leaned against the wall, crossing his arms over his chest, a grin taking
over his face as he watched her.
“It’s just the
thought of you—the very thought of you, my love,” she sang, using a fork to
transfer a golden leg to a paper towel–covered plate.
As she reached
forward to turn off the stove, some of the leftover grease in the frying pan
spat up at her and burned her wrist.
“Ow!” she
yelped. “Damn it!”
With a sudden
rush of adrenaline, Holden crossed the kitchen in two strides. He turned on the
faucet and grabbed her arm to thrust her wrist under the cold stream. He held
it there, wincing at the red blotch developing on her white skin. When he
lifted his eyes to hers, she was staring at him with a surprised, curious
expression.
“It’s just a
little burn.”
He shrugged,
still holding her arm, staring down at the burn.
“You were
asleep,” she said.
“You were
singing.”
“Too loud?”
“No.”
“You remember
that song?”
“I remember.”
He slid his palm
down her arm to cradle her wrist from below.
“The stove’s
still on,” she said.
Without dropping
her hand, he took a step closer to her, reached around her waist with his free
hand, and flicked the burner off.
“I made fried
chicken,” she said softly, her cheeks flushed.
“I can smell
it.”
“You like fried
chicken. I mean . . . you must have mentioned it to me a hundred times when we
were—”
“It’s still my
favorite.”
They were both
silent for a few seconds, and Holden knew he should drop her hand and step away
from her, but he couldn’t. She’d hurt herself doing something kind for him, and
it just about shredded his heart.
Just
another moment, he told himself. A
few more seconds touching her and then I’ll move away.
“Sorry about the
singing,” she whispered, unmoving, her breath kissing his throat.
He jerked his
neck to face her, his thumb curling into her palm, his eyes searching hers for
mercy.
“I loved it,” he
murmured.
She stepped
forward, closing the distance between them, her lips parting, her breasts
grazing his chest through his T-shirt as she stared up at him.
“Holden, I . .
.”
Every breath she
took seemed to draw him closer to her, as if she was breathing him, not air. He
leaned forward, into her, his free hand reaching for hers.
“Griselda . . .”
Her eyes, dark
blue and churning, flicked to his lips, lingered there, then slid back up his
face and seized his.
His self-control
snapped.
After all, he
was only human.
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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