Today, I'm hosting a promo on Katy Evans's latest release, Best Man, as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment.
Best Man
Katy Evans
Published: December 10, 2019
Best Man, a brand new contemporary romance from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Katy Evans.
When the wedding of your dreams is just around the corner, everything needs to go as planned. Only problem is, the groom didn’t get the memo.
Aaron forgot the rings, and Lia is determined to make the long drive home to get them in time for their “I do’s.”
But there’s a catch. There always is with Aaron, isn’t there?
Aaron is too hungover to come, and sends a replacement.
The best man.
Miles Foster. The cocky, arrogant, sexy best man…and the last person Lia wants to be trapped in a car with for hours.
But Aaron insists, and Lia wonders if there’s another reason Aaron wants Miles tagging along--aside from sticking her with a hot, surly babysitter.
Yet how bad can it be? It’ll be over before she knows it, and she’ll never see him again. Just like in college.
But when secrets are revealed, and Lia's whole world is turned upside down, she realizes she's been living a lie--and so has her groom.
Miles is supposed to be the best man at her wedding.
But what if he is simply the best man she has ever known? The best man for her?
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An Excerpt from Best Man:
The dress is a strapless Carolina Herrera, with layers and layers of
whisper-thin organza. It blows my budget and the “less is more” mantra out of
the water, but like Eva said the day we bought it in downtown Denver, when you know, you know. The locale is the
sumptuous Midnight Lodge, nestled in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, every tiny
detail of the place costing my father more than an entire year of his salary.
The twenty-three members of the bridal party are assembled. It’s the scene of
every little girl’s fairytale fantasy.
My fantasy.
At least, the one I’d been harboring up until today, when everything
changed.
Eva smiles at me. “Ready to make your dreams come true?”
I stare at myself in the mirror. I look like Cinderella, if the wicked
stepmother had just materialized at the castle on Cinderella’s wedding day and
gunned down Prince Charming in cold blood. I’m also about three minutes away
from losing the mimosa I’d polished off earlier that morning at breakneck
speed. I go to chew on my nails but then I remember Eva painted them, and the
last thing I want is for him to see the chips.
He notices things like that. He’s an observer.
And I want to be perfect for him.
Him.
The wrong him.
Oh, god.
I go to chew on my lip, but I
can’t do that because they’ve been lacquered with bubble-gum pink gloss, and
he’d probably notice if I got it on my teeth, too. All my normal ways of
freaking out are off limits.
This is the day of my dreams, the day I’ve planned to the letter, just
so I could avoid any potential calamities that might make me freak out.
But I am freaking out. Oh,
lordy, am I ever.
I’ve been waiting my whole life for this day.
This perfect day, where the sun is shining, the snow is melting, birds
are singing, and the sky is the deepest blue I’ve ever seen.
But there’s a problem.
A problem in the form of a pretentious, bearded, six-foot-three wall of
hot man flesh who stalks around hating the world and thinking he’s better than
everyone in it.
My fiancé’s best friend. The best man, Miles Foster.
This is all his fault.
“You okay?” Eva asks.
“I am,” I insist, pushing the infernal veil out of my face for the
thousandth time. “This dress is itchy as hell.”
I stand and pluck the dress up under my armpits, hoisting it over my
boobs. I try to take a step but…too much fabric, in all directions. It’s a
wonder I don’t drown in this sea. In this sea, or in this mess I’ve created for
myself. I sit back down on the vanity stool and pout. “I’m stuck.”
In more ways than one.
She gathers handfuls of too much organza and helps me up, depositing the
pile of fabric safely in my wake. I shuffle to the full-length mirror and
glance at myself. I don’t look like a bride, or even a fairytale princess. I look like a prisoner who just got her death
sentence.
“It’s too loose,” I whine. I never had much of a rack, and now it’s
super obvious. Why did I decide to go strapless again? “I think I must’ve lost
some boobage during my diet. What if the top of my dress falls down while I’m
walking up the aisle?”
Eva smirks. “I’m sure Aaron’ll love the show.”
The thought makes the mimosa turn in my stomach. I used to live for what
Aaron thought. Whenever I had a choice to make on something, be it a new movie
coming out, or a sweater at the mall, or a new hair style, I’d think, Would Aaron like this? But I realize, as
she says his name, that it doesn’t matter to me in the slightest what Aaron
thinks. The only opinion I care about now is that of the man who will be
standing precisely two feet to my husband-to-be’s left.
I am such an idiot.
In less than fifteen minutes, I will be marching down the stone steps
outside the Midnight Lodge to a picturesque gazebo at the foot of the hills, on
the arm of my father, who has socked his entire life’s savings into making this
day picture perfect for his only daughter. I will take the hand of the man I’ve
been attached at the hip to for over five years, ever since I met him in a dank
frat cellar when I was a wide-eyed little college freshman. I will join with
this man—this man I’ve spent all of my adult life with—in holy matrimony, ’til
death us do part.
I will become Mrs. Aaron Eberhart.
But I know I’ll be looking past my husband-to-be to the man who, up until
twelve hours ago, I’d thought I hated. Miles Foster.
And I will be wondering What if…
I wish choosing a husband was as simple as choosing a dress.
When you know, you know.
I did know, or I thought I
did. Up until twelve hours ago, I thought Aaron Eberhart was my true soul mate,
the one I’d happily spend the rest of my life with. That’s when things took an
unexpected turn.
Right now? I don’t even know my own name.
And I have a feeling I might be making a huge mistake.
About the Author:
Katy Evans is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
Her debut REAL shot to the top of the bestselling lists in 2013 and since then 9 of her titles have been New York Times bestsellers. Her books have been translated into nearly a dozen languages across the world.
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