J.C. and the Bijoux Jolis
The Rousseaus, #3
by Katy
Regnery
Publication
date: November 21st 2016
Genres:
Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Did you
fall in love with The English Brothers? Were you hot for the Winslows? Katy
Regnery’s New York Times bestselling Blueberry Lane series
continues with The Rousseau siblings in 2016!
BLURB
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.
*All books in The
Blueberry Lane Series can be enjoyed as standalone novels.*
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EXCERPT:
“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.”
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Author Info
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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