*~*Love Note: Asher to Savannah – The Vixen & The Vet by Katy Regnery*~*
In this modern-retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Savannah Carmichael, betrayed by an unreliable source, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia with her once-promising journalism career in ruins. Given the opportunity to get back in the game by writing a patriotic human interest piece, Savannah turns her attention to the town hermit, Asher Lee, a wounded veteran who returned to Danvers eight years ago, and hasn’t been seen since.
After an IED explosion in Afghanistan took Asher’s hand and disfigured half of his face, he’s lived a quiet life on the outskirts of Danvers where the locals respect his privacy…that is, until Savannah Carmichael comes calling in a borrowed sundress with a plate of homemade brownies. When Asher agrees to be interviewed by Savannah, he starts feeling things for the beautiful reporter that he hasn’t felt in years.
Misfits in small-town Danvers, Savannah and Asher create a bond right away, touching each other’s hearts in ways neither thought possible. When a terrible mistake threatens to drive them apart, they’ll have to decide if the love they found in one another’s arms is strong enough to fight for their hard-won happily ever after.
I am totally hooked on this series! The Vixen and the Vet blew me away! And right now – it’s FREE! #EasyOneClick
Check out the other books in the series – Never Let You Go & Ginger’s Heart are currently on sale for only 99 cents!
From New York Times bestselling author Katy Regnery, comes a tale of 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.
**Due to profanity, scenes of physical abuse and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18. (Note: Children are not sexually abused in this book.)**
All novels in the ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers.
From New York Times bestselling author Katy Regnery, a modern-day fairytale about the many faces of love.
Once upon a time there were two cousins:
one golden like the sun,
one dark like midnight,
one a protector,
one a predator,
one a Woodsman
and
one a Wolf…
both owning equal,
but different,
parts of a little girl’s heart.In this contemporary love story, loosely inspired by “Little Red Riding Hood,” the woodsman and the wolf are cousins, and Little Red is the girl with whom they both fall in love.
Beautiful Ginger McHuid, daughter of Kentucky’s premiere horse breeder, grows up on her family farm, best friends with Cain Wolfram, the son of her father’s Stallion Manager, and Cain’s cousin, Josiah Woodman, son of a local banker. Throughout their happy childhood, the three are inseparable friends, but as they mature into adults, complicated feelings threaten to destroy their long history of friendship and love.
**Due to profanity and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**
All novels in the ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers.
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Ginger’s Heart is part of the ~a modern fairytale~ collection, which includes six standalone, completely unrelated novels inspired by beloved fairy tales:
The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) – available now
Never Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) – available now
Ginger’s Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) – available now
Dark Sexy Knight (Camelot) – available June 2016
Don’t Speak (The Little Mermaid) – available 2017
Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) – available 2017
From New York Times bestseller Katy Regnery comes another timeless tale of love everlasting!
Loosely inspired by the legend of Camelot, Dark Sexy Knight tells the story of dinner theater knight Colt Lane, who meets down-on-her-luck Verity Gwynn on the worst day of her life. Evicted from their home, Verity and her special-needs brother, Ryan, must find jobs or risk being separated. Colt, who is the furthest-possible thing from a white knight in real life, comes to their unlikely rescue, quickly cementing his place in Verity’s heart.
Colt has dark, deeply buried secrets that keep his smile hidden and his eyes down, which has kept people away . . . until he meets Verity, who seems immune to his gruff manners and taciturn ways. The more time Colt spends with her, the more he longs for her sweetness in his life and yearns to be the knight in shining armor she so desperately needs. Certain he will lose her if she learns the truth about his past, he must decide if he can trust her with his yesterday in order to build a beautiful tomorrow.
**Contemporary Romance. Due to profanity, mild violence and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**
All novels in the ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers.
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Dark Sexy Knight is part of the ~a modern fairytale~ collection, which includes six standalone, completely unrelated novels inspired by beloved fairy tales:
The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) – available now
Never Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) – available now
Ginger’s Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) – available now
Dark Sexy Knight (Camelot) – available June 2016
Don’t Speak (The Little Mermaid) – available 2017
Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) – available 2017
From New York Times bestseller Katy Regnery comes a new twist on a beloved fairytale.
A fisherman’s daughter.
The governor’s son.
Two very different worlds.
In this modern retelling of The Little Mermaid, a fisherman’s daughter from an Outer Banks island untouched by time, meets the son of North Carolina’s governor at a fancy party where she’s working.
Laire, who wants so much more from life than her little island can offer, is swept away by wealthy, sophisticated Erik, who is, in turn, entranced by her naiveté and charm. The two spend a whirlwind summer together that ends on the knife-point of heartbreak and forces them to go their separate ways.
Years later, when fate leads them back to one another, they will discover the terrifying depth of the secrets they kept from each other, and learn that shattered hearts can only be healed by a love that willfully refuses to die.
All novels Katy Regnery’s ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers. 10% of the e-book sales for in March and April 2017 will be donated to P.E.O. International, a non-profit organization that celebrates the advancement of women, awards scholarships and grants, and provides motivation for women to make their dreams come true.
**Contemporary Romance. Due to profanity, adult themes and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**
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Don’t Speak is part of the ~a modern fairytale~ collection, which includes six standalone, completely unrelated novels inspired by beloved fairy tales:
The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) – available now
Never Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) – available now
Ginger’s Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) – available now
Dark Sexy Knight (Camelot) – available now
Don’t Speak (The Little Mermaid) – available soon
Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) – available late-2017Love my fairytales? I’m always open to suggestions! E-mail me your favorite and maybe I’ll reimagine it for you!
Oh my goodness…Asher makes me swoon every time!
Keep reading to see the full Love Note!
Dear Savannah,
Almost twelve years ago, one month before my twenty-fifth birthday, I stepped onto a IED in Afghanistan which took my right ear, my right arm and hand from the elbow down, and left catastrophic damage on the right side of my face and right thigh.
Eleven years ago today, on Valentine’s Day (which seemed like such a sick and twisted joke at the time) I returned home to Danvers after countless procedures that still left me looking like a monster. Melted skin on my face and thigh. Earless. A stump for an arm. A limp.
I was faceless. Terrifying. Not fit for public.
A monster. A beast.
Someone who had lost his faith and his hope. Someone who doubted the existence of God.
Eight and a half years later, more or less, my doorbell rang, and standing there in a sundress she’d borrowed from her sister, holding a plate of brownies baked by her mother, was you. I couldn’t have known, in those first hypnotized, dumbstruck moments of seeing you, that you’d become my angel, my savior, my lifeline back to humanity, my second chance at living, my first and only true love.
Since meeting you two and a half years ago, darlin’, my whole life has changed. Your love and support gave me the courage (and kick in the ass) I needed to go back to Walter Reed and finish the surgeries I needed. Even though I still see a beast in the mirror, I don’t when I look in your eyes because all I see shining back is your love for me. I can hold you with two hands now, even though one of them isn’t the one I was born with, but you say you love it all the same. You smile that smile that makes my heart flip over and call me your “bionic man.”
Last Christmas, we ran into that couple from New York – Violet and Zach Aubrey – and spent the holiday with them. Maybe it was seeing them so happy, Violet sharing her news about her pregnancy, and Zach being so happy…or maybe it was something in the water. But, nine months later to the day—on September 25th 2016, our own little one arrived. Pamela Carmichael Lee, named for my mama.
Finding you was a miracle I never saw coming…which means that our daughter, Pammy, is a whatever comes after a miracle. I don’t think there’s a word for it. But if there is, it’s got to be something like “grace,” because when I look into her eyes, exactly like yours, I feel the restoration of my faith and hope. And I know that there must be a God, because someone as perfect as her came from heaven.
Twelve years ago I stepped on an IED.
And maybe you will call me crazy, baby, but if that’s the road I had to walk to find myself here today with my girls, I’d step on it 100 times out of 100.
There is mercy in this world. There are miracles. There is grace. There are gifts like your laughter and blessings like Pammy’s sweet smiles. There is goodness I never thought I would see again. There is hope if we have faith, and most of all, there is love.
Your love, which saved me. Our love, which sustains us.
From the depths of my battered soul, I will love you, my sweet Savannah. And when this world finally slips away, I will love you through eternity.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Your,
Asher
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.
Now exclusively self-published, Katy claims authorship of the multi-titled Blueberry Lane Series, which follows the English, Winslow, Rousseau, Story, and Ambler families of Philadelphia; the six-book, bestselling ~a modern fairytale~ series; the Enchanted Places Series; and a stand-alone novella, Frosted.
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 boxed set, The Winslow Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1-4, became a New York Times bestseller.
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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Asher… wow… you are amazing!
Seriously love this series, one of the sit down and ignore the world reads. Each and every one.
Asher Lee is one of a kind…….this book is a favorite of mine that I have read and re-read! When ever anyone ask me for a recommendation, this book is always at the top of the list! Great love letter, I loved it. Asher is my book boyfriend!
I absolutely love Asher & Savanah. This letter is perfection.
Amazing love story and love note. What a perfect epilogue to a great story.
Asher’s letter is so much better than “Will you be my Valentine”. He has become such a romantic. This is such a beautiful expression of love.
Awwww…I wish someone would write ME a letter like that.
Loved it.
And my son’s birthday is September 25th (2003). 🙂