Midsummer Sweetheart (34 page)

Lars got dressed quickly and packed up his bag, careful to make the bed so Katrin wouldn’t have extra work on her hands. He needed to hit the road if he was going to make it south in time for a noon pickup at the airport in Boze. Lindstrom & Sons, where Lars worked as a tour guide with his father and older brother, Nils, had a big job starting today.

He opened the door to his room and edged out into the hall only to find Erik and Katrin walking back and forth up and down the hallway in bathrobes, each with a twin in their arms. Erik’s tired eyes flew open as he made the universal gesture for “Shhhhh,” pressing one finger up to his lips.

“Just got ‘em back to sleep,” he whispered over one small blond head.

“I gotta take off,” said Lars, hoisting his bag onto his shoulder. “Pick up in Boze at noon. Big group.”

“Who you got comin’ in?” asked Erik, who used to work as a guide with his brothers.

“Who’s coming today doesn’t matter. It’s who’s coming in on Tuesday. You won’t believe it.”

“Who?” asked Erik, bloodshot eyes curious.

“Samara Amaya.”

“THE Samara Amaya?” Kat stopped pacing and swayed back and forth beside Erik, her heavy-lidded eyes focused on Lars. “The supermodel?”

Lars nodded, smiling at his pretty sister-in-law. “Yup. She’s comin’ in on Tuesday for a photo shoot.”

“Hot damn, Lars,” murmured Erik. “You get all the luck.”

Kat elbowed her husband in the side, giving him a sour look.

“Not that I’d trade Paradise Two and its three lovely ladies for all the supermodels in the world.” He leaned down and kissed his wife’s forehead.

Kat’s lips tipped up into a pleased smile as she rolled her eyes at him. “I’m putting Heidi down.” She leaned up on tiptoes so Lars could kiss her cheek goodbye. “Travel safe, Lars. See you next weekend for the christening.”

Lars watched her make her way into the nursery before turning back to Erik. “Talk about luck.”

“Don’t look at my wife like that.” Erik’s eyes narrowed.

“Good thing I didn’t see her first,” Lars teased.

“If I wasn’t holding my daughter, I’d belt you and good,
Midten
.”

Lars grinned, reaching out to tousle Erik’s hair. “Thanks for having me up.”

“Thanks for making the trip.”

Lars turned to leave but was called back by Erik’s loud whisper. “Lars!”

“Huh?”

“Samara Amaya? Really?”

Lars chuckled softly, not wanting to wake up Dagmar, who slept soundly on her father’s shoulder.

“Not ‘til Tuesday. Today’s nothing. Just picking up her assistant to do a couple days of recon. Name’s, uh, Jane, I think. Yeah. Jane Mays.”

Erik winked at Lars, giving him a knowing grin, as he turned to follow Katrin.

“You never know, Lars. You never know.…”

SEE JANE FALL

Lars Lindstrom and Jane Mays’s story

Available May 2014

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MIDSUMMER SWEETHEART

(Heart of Montana, #2—Erik Lindstrom’s story)

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KATY REGNERY, award-winning romance novelist, has always loved telling a good story and credits her mother with making funny, heartwarming tales come alive throughout her childhood. A lifelong devotee of all romance writing from Edwardian to present-day, it was just a matter of time before Katy tried her hand at writing a love story of her own.

As it turned out, one love story turned into a series of six Heart of Montana romances, following the love lives of the Yellowstone-based Lindstrom siblings, their friends and family. Katy is also the author of the Enchanted Places series, which launched in 2014 with
Playing for Love at Deep Haven
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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 and two dogs create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories of all are the messy and unexpected ones.

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