If the best man and maid of honor are both single,
it’s practically an unwritten rule that they should pork.
J.C. AND THE BIJOUX JOLIS
The Blueberry Lane Series
The Rousseaus #3
Katy Regnery
Released Nov 21st, 2016
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If the best
man and maid of honor are both single, it’s practically an unwritten rule that
they should pork.
…so begins
a rocky acquaintance between Jean-Christian “J.C.” Rousseau and Libitz Feingold
at the wedding of J.C.’s brother and Lib’s best friend. While manslut best man
J.C. is surprised when maid of honor Libitz soundly spurns his advances, his
curiosity is piqued. The girl he couldn’t have becomes the only one he wants.
So, when he
finds a seventy-year-old portrait in the attic of his sister’s mansion that
bears an uncanny resemblance to the prickly gallery owner, he enlists her help
in solving a mystery seven decades in the making. Traveling from Philadelphia
to New York to Marseille, a couple who started off as enemies will discover
that even cynics can find true love…and mortal man is no match for destiny.
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“You must
be the famous Libitz,” he’d opened, taking his assigned seat beside her, and
flashing his sexiest grin.
After
all, if she was his chosen conquest for the weekend, there was no time like the
present to work his wiles. Wearing a simple black sheath dress with aqua
circles, 70s-style mod make-up and oversized silver and crystal chandelier
earrings that almost brushed her thin shoulders, she’d turned to him and
blinked those wide, all-seeing eyes.
“And you…must
be kidding.”
Taken
aback, he’d stared at her for a second before chuckling. “Wha—I mean, how’s
that?”
“Let’s
start over,” she said, cocking her head to the side. “Here’s your line, Romeo:
“Hi, I’m Étienne’s brother, Jean-Christian. It’s nice to meet you.” Want to
give it a try?”
He
cleared his throat, his smile fading. “Hi, I’m Étienne’s brother,
Jean-Christian. It’s nice to meet you.”
She
locked eyes with his, her lips neutral, neither tilted up nor down. “Hi. I’m
Libitz Feingold, Kate’s best friend…and it’s not cold enough.”
“What?”
asked J.C., feeling completely turned around.
"It’s
not cold enough in hell for me to fall for someone like you,” she said, then
shifted back around to talk to the person on her other side.
Well,
fuck me, thought J.C., taking another gulp of beer as he tried to figure
out if he was insulted or impressed. After a moment, he nudged her in the side
with his elbow and she looked at him over her shoulder, her expression
annoyed.
“Yes?”
“I hear
the temperature’s dropping there,” he said casually, then added, “because
they’re expecting a visit from you.”
"Ha!”
she chortled, a genuine grin brightening her eyes for a moment before she
quickly reigned it back in to practiced ennui. “Is that right?”
He
shrugged, tipping his bottle of beer back as he held her eyes, challenging her
to come back at him with something clever. “So I heard.”
“From all
the friends you’ve got there?”
He almost
spit his beer out. Damn, but she was quick.
"Truce?’
he asked, placing his beer on the table and holding out his hand.
She
stared at his hand for a moment, then looked away, leaning forward to pick up
her champagne glass and bringing it slowly to her lips. “No, thanks. Mama
didn’t raise no fool.”
“You’re
unreal.” She shook her head, that bored look still in place.
"Nope.
I’m real. I’m just not a good target for charming scamps looking for
trouble.”
"A
target? Shit. Who got to you?” he asked, feeling a little abused by her
insta-judgement of him without actually getting a chance to know him in person.
Not that she was wrong exactly. But getting into trouble with the right person
could be a hell of a lot of fun.
“The list
is long and distinguished,” she shot back.
His eyes
widened and his lips wobbled.
“Oh,
God,” she said, shaking her head as her cheeks bloomed an appealing pink under
her make-up. “I walked right into that one didn’t I?”
“Yes, you
did,” said J.C. with what he hoped was a disarming grin. “All together,
now…”
“So’s my
Johnson,” they said at the same time, quoting the rebuttal line from Top
Gun.
“Hey,
look at that,” he said, still smiling at her. “You do know how to have fun. I
was beginning to worry.”
Her smile
instantly faded. “You’re not as cute as you think you are.”
"Yeah,”
he said, nodding as he finished the last of his beer. “I am.”
New York Times and USA Today 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 and Katy’s first novel was published in
September 2013.
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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