by Kathryn Shay
The children were adorable. I can picture Lilliana as a miniature Mariella, and I can see Yvette’s sweet face. Were you surprised when they acted out trying to go to Casarina together? Quite frankly, I was, though they were kids!
I hope you liked Mariella’s and Jordan’s story. It came from the heart, and there were places I cried in the book when I reread and proofed it.
Raven’s book is almost done so you’ll see her in another month. And it’s some story!
On a side note, my second proofreader is from France. After I poured over the French words to get them right, and my copyeditor checked them all and made changes, Blandine suggested many better usages. She knew the colloquial use and we didn’t. So thanks to her.
Bonne soirée,
Kathy
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Don’t miss the rest of the books in
THE GENTILESCHI SISTERS Series
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, Book 1
Lexy Marcello Gentileschi may be a princess, brought up in a sheltered world, but she knows how to fight Ryder Reynolds in negotiations for her book contract. However, falling in love with the boss is a very different thing!
THIS GUY'S IN LOVE, Book 2
Detective Francesca Marcello Gentileschi can’t afford another screw up like the one she made at her last precinct where she fell for one of her colleagues. Unfortunately Detective Tyrell Beauregard Collingsworth has other things in mind for the lovely princess cop.
CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE, Book 3
When Evangelina Gentileschi is hit by a stray ball at a Major League baseball game, the batter, Mike Jagielski leaps over the dugout and climbs into the stands to help her. Neither knows that the entire course of their lives are about to change.
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE?, Book 4
The last thing grade school teacher Gabriella Gentileschi wants is a man in her life, especially not one who makes her flash back to the worst thing that happened to her. But gym teacher Dante Federico is determined to make Brie like him—and maybe more.
I THINK I LOVE YOU!, Book 6
Ravenna Marcello Gentileschi badly wants a show at the prestigious Parkers, a top-notch art gallery in Baltimore. But can she put up with stiff and starchy Blake Parker, the owner, long enough to have her paintings displayed before the world?
Take a look at Chapter 1 from the next book in the series, I THINK I LOVE YOU!:
Raven awoke on her side, chilled. She grabbed for her blanket, but it wasn’t there. Her hand pressed against the bed, or whatever she lay on—it felt like cushions. She sniffed. The faint scent of paint. As the moon peered in through the windows somewhere, she turned over. And saw Blake next to her, on a bed of cushions that must be from the benches. What had she done?
Panic flushed her body with heat—and also immobilized her. For a moment, visions of entwined naked bodies and the moans of satisfaction whipped through her head. They’d made love, more than once.
When she could, she sat up. She looked around. A pile of clothes half-draped on the bench of the red section, half had fallen to the floor. She managed to crawl over, pick them up, sit down and slide on the ruined silk pants. She walked a few feet over and found the pink shell on the floor and the jacket snagged on end of Silenced. Visions assaulted her—his hard body against her, how he bucked inside her until she thought she’d die. She felt the imprint of him all over again.
Caught on another bench was her bra and red panties, which were ripped. She stuffed them in her pocket. Shoes, she needed her shoes. She found one near the window, another tucked under a second bench. His shoes were a few feet away. The thud as he kicked them off echoed in her mind.
She needed her coat and purse because it had her keys. She tiptoed to the hallway and saw the coatroom down the hall. Thankfully it wasn’t locked. The hanger jingled as she slid off her red coat and shrugged into it. She donned her heels. Her hand found her keys inside. Gripping them, she made it to the door and fumbled with the inside lock. It was loud and she afraid it would wake…
A hand slammed against the heavy wood and she was trapped by his body behind her. “Not so fast.”
“I…” The word came out like a croak. She cleared her throat. “I have to leave.”
His talented lips that had trailed all over her body whispered in her ear, “That’s not what you said last night.”
She remembered. He’d been furious about her confession, mostly because she hadn’t trusted him before tonight with the information on her real background. His oddly colored green eyes pierced the armor she’d so carefully built around herself.
She tried again. “Blake, please let me go.”
“If you talk first, I will.”
“No talk. I can’t do this with you. I can’t.”
“Why? Don’t deny what’s between us, Raven, because it’s been building up. We proved that just hours ago.”
Her forehead hit the wood. “I know it has.”
“Stay. Talk about this.” Still, he used that seductive voice.
For a moment, she considered it. Then the demons came. You can’t depend on anybody. Men need to be controlled. You need to be controlled around men.
So forceful, so dominating had the warning become in her life, she broke his hold on her and he stumbled back, giving her enough time to get the doors open and flee down the steps.
At her retreat, he called out, “Raven.”
But the words disappeared unheeded into the night air.
About the Author
A NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author, Kathryn Shay has been a lifelong writer and teacher. She has written dozens of self-published original romance titles, print books with the Berkley Publishing Group and Harlequin Enterprises and mainstream women’s fiction with Bold Strokes Books. She has won many awards for her work: five RT Book Reviews awards, the Bookseller’s Best Award, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year and several “Starred Reviews.” One of her firefighter books hit #20 on the NEW YORK TIMES list. Her novels have been serialized in COSMOPOLITAN magazine and featured in USA TODAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and PEOPLE magazine. There are over ten million copies of her books in print and downloaded online. Reviewers have called her work “emotional and heart-wrenching.”
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