THAT SWOONY FEELING: by Meghan Quinn
Release Date: August 6th
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn brings more humor and heart with the fourth novel of her Getting Lucky series: a story about breaking curses and finally finding that swoony feeling.
I’m single . . . so single it’s painful.
Yup, ladies, Brig Knightly–that’s me–is still a lonely bachelor, stumbling through the streets of Port Snow, looking for the girl he’s supposed to end up with.
That is until my brother, Rogan, presents me with the opportunity of a lifetime. The Summer of Love, a secret pen pal program in Port Snow is looking for applicants and I’m the perfect fit.
I couldn’t sign up fast enough.
I found myself quickly falling in love with a pair of red lips at the bottom of a letter. Just like in the movies . . .
Life could not have been better, that was until I started hanging out with Ruth Barber. Starting a new business right next to my shop, I found myself gravitating toward her. Her smile, her humor . . . her tea sandwiches.
My attraction for Ruth came in full force, leaving me dazed, confused, and *ahem* excited.
As new feelings for two women come to a screeching halt, I have to figure out who to choose. But when I discover my pen pal is Ruth, it might be too late.
All I want in life is to experience that swoony feeling . . . but I think I might have just missed my chance.
PROLOGUE:
**BRIG**
Hands stuffed in my pockets, I look at Reid while nibbling on the corner of my lip. โButโโ
โBrig, I swear to God,โ Reid says, dragging his hand down his face while we make our way past Jackson Square, toward Cafรฉ Du Monde. โDo not ask about your penis turning green one more goddamn time. We all looked at it. Itโs flesh colored. Any signs of green you might have seen was from the shit lighting in the bathroom. Now, drop it.โ
โYeah, okay,โ I sigh, even though I donโt feel convinced.
Something happened last night.
Something terrifying.
Something that has left me shaking in my shoesโbecause I donโt wear bootsโwanting to rip my pants down repeatedly to make sure things are still intact.
Two days ago, I turned twenty-one, and to celebrate the youngest Knightlyโs freedom to hold a beer in his hand legally, my three brothers took me to New Orleans to party in style. And we did . . . up until last night, when the depths of hell tried to swallow us all whole.
Mom warned us, saying, โDonโt get into any trouble.โ
My dad slapped the back of our heads before we left and told us to use our brains.
Even our sister, the oldest and wisest of the Knightly children, stared us in the eyes and told us not to do anything stupid.
And yet, we failed all of them.
Have you ever been to New Orleans? Neither had I, but Iโd heard great things about the place. Drinking in the streets and peekaboo boobs on every corner.
Beignets and rice and beans.
Scandalous fun.
Sounded like a great time.
But after doing extensive research before the tripโI like to plan aheadโthe one thing I wanted to avoid, the one thing that made me extremely nervous, was the voodoo magic prevalent on the grimy cobblestone streets.
You know what Iโm talking about. The dark stuff, the chilling life-altering spells that can change you as a man . . . as a human.
*Whispers* Black magic . . .
We did a great job avoiding any and all scary things, until last night, when I inadvertently ran smack dab into the palms of evil.
Shocking news: I was drunk. I couldnโt tell if I was walking on cobblestone streets last night or lobster rollsโthatโs how far gone I wasโso when I stumbled over a palm readerโs table and broke it, I wasnโt exactly aware of the severity of my mistake.
She roared with displeasure.
Her eyes tore through me with veritable hatred that shook me to the tip of my dick.
And her gangly fingers rattled while she spoke vehemently.
Terrified out of my wits, I held up my palm while my brothers tossed her twenty bucks and asked her to read it.
I wish I could remember what she said.
The future she spoke of is all a blur at this point. Pretty sure she said something about how incredibly handsome I am and how I outshine my brothers with the curves of my jaw, but I canโt be quite sure. The boys deny that part of the story, but they donโt deny the stark hatred that spit like venom from the petrifying womanโs mouth.
My brothers, of course, didnโt make the situation any better by making fun of her predictions. They actually sparked the flame that set the fire. I might be telling this wrongโyou know, completely wasted and allโbut the moment the palm reader turned an evil shade of hate, I felt every ounce of fun-loving booze seep from the bottom of my feet and out into the streets, sobering me up to the point of understanding.
In a whirlwind of vengeful movements, her arms waved about, the wind swirled around us, trash from the streets danced around my jean-covered legs, and the palm readerโs eyes turned yellowโI confirmed that fact with all three brothers this morning.
Indeed, her eyes were yellow.
And then she said something I will never forget . . .
This wretch of a wench cloaked in the devilโs garb took our fate into her own hands and punished us with broken love.
Broken.
Love.
If you know me at all, youโd know that would cut deep to my very being.
Then Reid said something about her telling us our dicks were going to fall off or turn green; canโt be sure, because I was stunned. Stunned with the notion that my entire life goal of getting married and becoming a doting husband was quickly stripped from my soul and set into blazing embers, never to be seen again.
The miscreant cursed the one thing I strive for as a man . . . that swoony feeling of being wrapped up in a warm, safe relationship with a woman.
And I canโt shake it.
No matter what my brothers say, no matter how many times they tell me to drop it, I keep worrying. I keep remembering the whirl of evil that was cast upon us. I keep trying to decode the meaning of it all.
Are we truly cursed?
โThereโs a table over there,โ Griffin, my oldest brother, says, making a beeline toward the back corner of the incredibly busy beignet-making icon. We came here for their famous beignets when we first arrived and decided to indulge one more time.
We catch a flight to Port Snow this afternoon and before we get back to our gossip-loving town, I want to set some things straight.
Taking seats, we quickly put in an order for beignets and a cafรฉ au lait each, and when the waitress leaves, I say, โCan we talk about last night?โ
Reid groans and slouches in his chair. Heโs in a shit mood, and Iโm not sure if itโs from the phone call he got last night that heโs not talking about or if itโs because heโs hung over. Maybe a combo of both. โCan we not?โ
โArenโt you worried?โ I ask, looking around at my brothers. I canโt possibly be the only one whoโs concerned here.
But it seems like I might be.
Griffin is texting. His wife, Iโm sure.
Rogan is staring at the trifold menu on the table.
And Reid is rubbing his eyes with his palms, looking like he wants to be anywhere but here.
โUh, hello? Do you guys not remember what happened last night? The whole alarming witch in a cloak thing, waving her dangly bone fingers at us. Table-breaking, palm-reading curses being flung about like beads off a balcony? Ring a bell?โ
Griffin sets his phone down and lets out a deep breath. His tone is the even, oldest-brother sensible voice. โWe were drunk last night, Brig.โ
โYeah, we were, but it doesnโt negate the fact that we all woke up with the same story this morning. She cursed us. Youโre telling me none of you are concerned?โ I glance around to all three pairs of blue eyes, the same blue eyes I share, and none of them are returning the look. Which tells me theyโre not willing to admit theyโre just as scared as I am.
I poke Rogan in the side. โHello, are you listening?โ
โTrying not to,โ he says, his fingers pressing to his left eye. โFuck, my head is pounding.โ Rogan is my second oldest brother, the quiet and annoyed one. Heโs had a rough go at life and barely cracks a smile anymore. Heโs more interested in punishing himself for the decisions heโs made in the past than in parting the dark cloud that hangs over his head so he can experience the world. As a retired football player, if pushed too hard, heโs been known to fight back. I think Iโll pass on leaning on him now.
โGriff.โ I turn to the reasonable one in the group. โYou saw it all, the way she spouted off that little limerick about broken love. She came up with that out of nowhere. It rhymed and everything. Who does that? Who wishes broken love on unsuspecting tourists? Frankly, itโs fucked up.โ
The waitress drops off our food and drinks. We give her a mumbled thank you before she takes off to serve another table in the busy outdoor seating area.
Mouth full of beignet and powdered sugar coating his lips, Griffin says, โIf she was half the palm reader she said she was, then she would have known that I was already married and this curse she set upon us was flawed. Yeah, was it strange that there was wind whipping around when she raised her armsโโ
โThe wind was weird,โ Rogan says.
โWind freaked me out,โ Reid grumbles while bringing his coffee up to his lips.
โNow you chime in,โ I say with an eye roll.
โCan I finish?โ Griff asks, sounding annoyed. We all silence ourselves with bites into our beignets. โThe wind was a strange coincidence, but I also think she was deranged. Thereโs no merit to what she said, and I think we would waste time thinking about it anymore than we have. Letโs just enjoy breakfast and then get the hell out of here.โ
โAgreed,โ Rogan says.
โYeah,โ Reid murmurs.
โButโโ
They all shoot me a death glare, and I snap my mouth shut.
Iโm outnumbered, and even if I try to press it, theyโre not going to change their minds. Theyโre chalking this experience up to what seems like a drunken it-was-all-an-illusion-weโll-soon-forget night.
But just a quick glance around the table, and I donโt buy it.
Worried brows.
Keeping to themselves.
Shifty eyes.
Theyโre thinking about it just as much as I am.
Listen to me, to the words I have spoken.
From this day on, your love will be broken.
It isnโt until your minds have matured
That the weight of this curse will forever be cured.
Might not seem like a big deal, but I have a bad feeling our worlds are about to be flipped upside down.
And boy, were our lives flipped.
Griffin lost his wife.
Roganโs high school sweetheart re-emerged with a vengeance.
Reidโs restaurant, his pride and joy, was stolen from him.
And me . . . well, I havenโt been in a relationship since the fateful day when my taut and beautiful ass tumbled over a palm readerโs table. Just bad luck? That everything good, everything we loved was taken away from us?
No.
It was the curse, but surely things would improve on their own. Wouldnโt they?
From this day on, your love will be broken.
That Swoony Feeling by Meghan Quinn
Tanya Rae’s rating: 5 of 5 stars
That Swoony Feeling is the 4th book in the Getting Lucky Series. This time it is Brig Knightlyโs story. He is the youngest of the 4 brothers.
Brig has been looking for love. All his brothers, Griffin, Rogan, Reid have found love after they all were cursed by a fortune teller when they were in New Orleans for Brigโs 21st Bโday.
Brig is now 25 and he still hasnโt found love and he is a little desperate to find love! Yet he canโt see it when it is in front of his face.
Ruth โRuthieโ Barber has been under Brigโs nose all along. Brig is so clueless, a โmoronโ (not my word). His brothers and sister have no trouble calling him that.
Meghan Quinn has the BEST texting messages ever!!!
Meghan Quinn must be a trip! She really knows how to write a Rom Com! She makes it funny, sexy & a page turner. She really knows how to give you all the feels! BTW Baked bean sandwiches??? Is that really a thing??? I loved being back in Port Snow. Makes me want to find the town and go meet the locals!!!
Another 5+ star read for me!!!
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USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.
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