DREAM WITH ME
Series: With Me In Seattle #13
Author: Kristen Proby
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 21st, 2020
Kane O’Callaghan knows what it is to have his work shown all over the world. His pieces are on display in palaces and museums, including the O’Callaghan Museum of Glass just outside of his beloved hometown of Seattle. Kane is a bit of a recluse, spending time on his farm alone and committed to his art. His life is full.
Until the day he meets her.
Wandering through museums is Anastasia Montgomery’s favorite way to spend her time. Not only does art feed her soul, but it inspires her own art of designing wedding cakes. When her muse seems to be gone, she finds her again among the beauty in the museums of Seattle, and the O’Callaghan Museum of Glass is her favorite. She’s never met the artist, but he must be absolutely brilliant, if he can make such beautiful things out of glass.
Bumping into a grumpy stranger at the museum wasn’t in Anastasia’s plan. And then discovering it was Kane himself was absolutely humiliating.
But when she sees him again at a charity fundraiser, and ends up spending an incredible, unforgettable night with the mysterious glass smith, Anastasia finds herself thinking of Kane and little else, even her precious work. Will this relationship bloom into the romance of a lifetime, or will their dreams of success get in the way of true love?
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Okay, so the man has moves. It shouldn’t surprise me that someone who creates such amazing works of art can also lead a girl around the dance floor. With one palm firmly planted on my lower back, and the other clutching my hand, Kane keeps his eyes on mine.
“You’re a good dancer,” I murmur.
“You’re nervous,” he replies softly. “There’s no need to be. It’s just a dance.”
I take a deep breath and offer him a smile. He’s right. It’s just a dance.
The fact that he’s maybe the hottest man I’ve ever seen is a huge bonus.
And if he can move like this, with all of our clothes on, I can only imagine what it could be like if we were naked.
Mercy.
“I never got your name,” he says and guides me closer to him so we can talk into each other’s ears. I glance around the room, seeing my sister and the other girls smiling at us, watching us dance.
“Anastasia,” I say and turn my head, not quite planting my nose against his neck. The smell of this man is going to kill me.
And not because it triggers my asthma.
Because it’s too sexy.
I watch the pulse in his neck and enjoy the feeling of his strong arms holding me.
“That’s a lovely name.” The accent is thicker in his voice now. Irish? I’m not good with accents, but I’d bet he’s Irish.
His last name might be an indicator.
“Thank you.”
The song ends and flows into another ballad. Adele sings about finding another lover, as Kane moves against me, with me.
I wonder if it looks as sexy as it feels.
“You said yesterday,” he whispers against my ear, “that you’d be using your sketch for something else. What will that something be?”
“A cake.”
He pulls back far enough to smile down at me in surprise. “A cake, is it?”
I nod, more comfortable talking about what I do for a living than just dancing in silence.
“I design and build wedding cakes for a living. I can do them for other occasions, as well, but wedding cakes are what I’m known for.”
“Interesting.”
“I have a client who came into my shop about a month ago to hire me. They didn’t give me any direction at all. No colors, no requests. It just has to feed about two hundred guests.” I shake my head in disgust. “Not that I want them to tell me to copy a photo. I won’t do that, but usually, they have colors they like or flowers in mind. Something. Not these two. When I need inspiration, I like to look at what others have created. Or have conversations with people I enjoy.”
“That makes sense,” he says and leans in to kiss my forehead, which sends a shiver right down my spine to my lady parts—which had already sat up and taken notice of Kane.
“What was that for?” I ask.
“An apology,” he replies. “For being difficult yesterday.”
“Apology accepted.”
His lips quirk into that half-smile, his green eyes shining. The song is almost over, and I know I should thank him for the dance and find Lia and the others.
“Thanks for the dance.”
The last note plays, and I pull back, immediately wishing I was back in his arms.
He’s a stranger, and it’s crazy, but it’s true.
“Do you belong to a man, Anastasia?” Kane brushes his knuckles down the side of my cheek.
I frown. “I’ll never belong to anyone.”
“You know what I mean. Are you taken?”
“I’m single if that’s what you’re asking.”
“Good.” He kisses the back of my hand.
5 ‘Art Feeds Art’ Stars
Oh wow…. How Dream With Me made my artistic heart soar! Kristen Proby blew my mind away with these two artistic souls and their oh so passionate and heart warming love story! Pure KP magic with the most delicious of accents!
How it’s amazing to be back to the WMIS universe, and with another unforgettable love story to boot!
Anastasia Montgomery – Lia’s sister from Stay With Me – is a successful cake designer, in a moment of search for inspiration she merges herself in art, and it’s in that inspiring moment that she crosses paths with the reclusive and famous artist, Kane O’ Callaghan. After meeting by chance twice in so many days, they embrace their insane attraction, starting an amazing, naturally but speedy, lol, love affair.
“You took my breath away, and I wasn’t ready for it.”
“The wanting for you never ends,”
I was absolutely enchanted by Kane and Stasia, how I adored not only their personalities, but their honesty and passion, but their intense sense of family and love for one another. I loved how we got a deep insight into this new family introduced by Kane, the O’ Callaghan’s, and though heartbreaking at times, and funny in other, we could already feel the immense potential of this characters. Family love shone throughout the all story, hooking me up even more to this already fantastic characters.
“Something you’ll learn about my family is, we take care of our own. Always. And if you’re with me, you’re one of us.”
I’ve said it in the past, and I’ll say it again, there are very few romance authors that have the capacity to give us such rich characters and storylines, but so RELATABLE, and mature. Every single time I’m in awe at the strong and fiercely independent female characters, as such is Anastasia; absolutely swoon worthy, but still flawed and realistic male characters, with Kane proving and assuming it to the fullest; but specially, their relationship development, so utterly symbiotic, relatable, and still, every bit of passionate and romantic, that even when the conflict surges, I’m still fascinated on how mature and rationally the issues are solved. I ADORE that! And Kane and Anastasia’s beautiful and incredibly sexy and passionate romance reflected their artistic souls to a T, and made me fall HARD for these two!
I’ve never been swept up into anything so profound before. So necessary.
Yes, glass is in my soul, and I’ll work with sand and fire until the day I die.
I was reminded that work fuels work, and art feeds art.
Ms. Proby manages – without fail – every single time to steal big piece of my heart with these With Me In Seattle gang. So beautifully written, with such passion, emotion, and realist, but so powerfully romantic, that it is for me the epitome of a love story!
I can’t never get enough of this world, and now that the author is enticing us with a whole new family sphere of the O’Callaghan’s, plus that angsty reveal of Archer’s story, I. AM. DYING! I need all these books STAT!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
“I’m irreversibly and completely in love with you.” His words are soft but steady. Sure. “Being with you is a special form of magic that I never want to lose.”
“I love you, too.” My fingers brush through the hair at the nape of his neck. “Completely and irreversibly.”
ARC kindly provided by the author via Social Butterfly PR for an honest review
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Kristen was born and raised in a small resort town in her beloved Montana. In her mid-twenties, she decided to stretch her wings and move to the Pacific Northwest, where she made her home for more than a dozen years.
During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before the dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.
Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series.
Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two pugs and two cats.
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Lani Lynn Vale is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple meaning over twenty) chickens. She hails from the Great State of Texas.
Brynne Asher grew up in the Midwest and now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, three children and her perfect dog. When she isn’t creating pretend people and relationships in her head, she is running her kids around and doing laundry. She enjoys cooking, decorating, shopping at outlet malls as well as online and is always seeking the best deal. A perfect day in “Brynne World” ends in front of an outdoor fire with family, friends, s’mores and a delicious cocktail.