Proposing
To Preston
Katy
Regnery
Date
of Publication: 7.7.15
ISBN:
978-0-9909005-5-1
ASIN:
B00VS0WJSM
Number
of pages: 269
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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.
My Review:
Preston Winslow is a wealthy, gorgeous, educated man studying to pass his bar exams when his on/off girlfriend drags him to a play. It's instant attraction when Preston sees Elise perform and he knows that he has to meet her.
Elise is a talented woman who left her family farm in order to pursue her love of acting and her dream of one day being on Broadway. When the chance comes to be on Broadway, Elise must choose a relationship or her dream. Until she finally realizes she can have both.
Only things do not go as planned. Where one loves the other too much, the other one fears love and what it can do to their dreams. When Elise returns can Preston forgive her or is his heart too broken to be repaired?
I loved Kate Regnery's newest book, Proposing to Preston. This is only the second book I've read by this author but they have both stayed with me after finishing.
First off, Preston is basically the perfect man. Gorgeous, intelligent, wealthy, and a lawyer. He's sweet and caring and every woman's dream. I loved him and everything about his character. Regnery has written him in a well-developed, realistic way that has you falling for him.
As for Elise, I was wary of her character at first. She seemed young, inexperienced, and not ready for a real relationship. As the story progressed I found myself liking her. Of course there were times I wanted to shake her and tell her to wake up before it was too late, but I did like her.
Proposing to Preston is realistic, at times heart breaking, and at the same pure and simplistic. I love the emotions that are clearly portrayed in this book. I loved the fact that I smiled, I felt the love between these two and I also cried. This book effected me and is a total ugly cry book, but a beautiful one.
This is one of my favorite new to me authors and I look forward to reading more work of hers in the future.
FIVE STARS!!
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
Connect
with Katy:
Katy
LOVES connecting with her readers and answers every e-mail, message,
tweet, and post personally! Click below to connect with Katy!
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